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SINGAPORE, ADM GALLERY
   










In Our Best Interests traces a historical line between contemporary affinities and appropriations of Afro-Asian histories, and historical trajectories of global solidarity movements, including anti-colonial and anti-racism resistance projects emerging after World War II. The exhibition considers complications and contexts including multi-ethnic and mixed- race communities engendered by wartime occupation, as well as the inadvertent legacies of international peacekeeping missions, cultural exchanges, and intimate economies that characterize the afterlives of anti-colonial geopolitics.

Displayed alongside the  artworks, selected archival materials map key itineraries of regional and international anti-colonial and anti-racism movements that were informed by an emergent global sensibility and desire for a post-imperial world order. These connect the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, the short-lived confederation of Maphilindo, and other independence projects. 




















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