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    Glossary

    This page offers you an easy glossary of complicated words in contemporary art. Specialized vocabulary, lesser-known expressions, or jargon, each term is defined with pedagogy and, at times, a touch of irony. With every new exhibition season, we present you with a selection of words to better understand its key issues.

    This season’s words

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    Futurism
    Freestyle
    Joan Jonas
    Lacquer and silk painting
    Memory
    The invention of perspective
    Wild style
    Woman, Life, Freedom

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    A

    Apartheid
    Afropean
    Artification
    Archipelago
    Ancestrality
    Anthropocene
    Animism

    B

    Botulism

    C

    Convivência
    Cultural activism
    Cliffhanger
    Creolisation
    Cosmovision
    Colonisation
    Caring for country

    D

    Doppelganger
    Dancehall
    Decolonial / Postcolonial
    Diaspora
    Decolonial feminism
    Dream

    E

    Ecosexuality
    Entropy
    Ecofeminism
    Emancipation
    Empowerment
    Exchange
    Extractivism
    Ecology / Environment
    Eurocentrism

    F

    Futurism
    Freestyle
    Funk
    Free jazz
    Feeling-Thinking

    H

    Hip-hop
    Holism

    I

    Institutional Psychotherapy
    Indigenous

    J

    Joan Jonas

    L

    Lacquer and silk painting

    M

    Memory
    Mental Health
    Museum in exile
    Mourning
    Modernity
    Music
    Mother Earth

    N

    Neurodiversity

    P

    Psychophobia
    PRM
    Patient Expert
    Post-Modernity
    Party
    Pluriverse

    Q

    Queer theory
    Queer

    R

    Resilience
    Reparation
    Revolt
    Reclaim

    S

    Seum
    Savage
    Sorority

    T

    The invention of perspective
    The uncanny
    The prefix "trans"
    Termite art
    Tout-Monde
    Translation

    U

    Ubuntu

    V

    Vandalism

    W

    Woman, Life, Freedom
    Wild style
    Wisdom
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