Starting from a long look and deep description of a work by Yinka Shonibare, "The Scramble for Africa", 2000-2003, we will re-visit some of the main questions introduced in art practice and curating by globalization. Focusing on "modernist primitivisms" retro-prospectively, as a particular and relevant moment for our present condition of globality.

Jose Antonio Fernandes Dias, anthropologist and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where he coordinates the MA in Curatorial Studies. As a curator, he's part of the team coordinating the project artafrica, and is a consultant in the Department of Fine Arts from the Gulbenkian Foundation. Currently is the head of the project Africa.cont. Lives and works in Lisbon.