Other Victories

The narrative of art history, as we know it, is a Eurocentric, patriarchal tale that idolises the White, Western men who wrote it, placing them at the top of a social hierarchy by belittling, ignoring and concealing the existence of non-Western and non-White artists in order to objectify and subjugate their Other. But this has not been without resistance. Artists and scholars continue to challenge narratives and make radical readings of canonical artworks that expose history’s bias so that we may rewrite history with more than the White, Western masculine perspective and intentions.