Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès is a feminist and decolonial activist, writer, independent curator and public educator. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of many books including A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist Theory of Violence and A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024).
In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès puts the museum in its place. Exploring the Louvre’s history, she uncovers the context in which the universal museum emerged: as a product of colonialism, and of Europe’s self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage. Vergès outlines a radical horizon: to truly decolonize the museum is to implement a ‘programme of absolute disorder’, inventing other ways of apprehending the human and non-human world that nourish collective creativity and bring justice and dignity to the dispossessed.
At Framer Framed she was the keynote speaker for the Symposium: Decolonial Futures, a cultural exchange programme organised between the Sandberg Instituut, the Rietveld Academie and Framer Framed in Amsterdam and Funda Community College in Soweto, South Africa.
She currently lives and works in Paris.
