reconnecting

Marian Nur Goni is an historian/art historian whose work revolves particularly around collections’ histories in and from East Africa, often examined through a diasporic focus, raising questions about the writing of history, processes of heritage-making and repair. Member of the SHIFT collective, she is co-founder of Troubles dans les collections online journal, as well as of the International Inventories Programme (IIP), an artistic, research and curatorial project that investigates a corpus of Kenyan cultural objects held in institutions in the North. She is assistant professor of contemporary art, postcolonial studies and geopolitics at the Université Paris 8 in France.