DECOLONISING MUSEUMS
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“I GUESS YOU GUYS AREN’T READY FOR THAT YET…” – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA<br />
Isabel Brison and Nuno<br />
Rodrigues de Sousa O<br />
Monumento da Rotunda das<br />
Águas Livres. The new<br />
monument to the fireman.<br />
Image found online<br />
Isabel Brison and Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa O Monumento da Rotunda<br />
das Águas Livres. Archive image. Monument to the Fireman in 2014.<br />
Photo: Nuno Rodrigues de Sousa. Courtesy the artist.<br />
If the playgrounds, albeit in a renewed plastic version,<br />
happened to still be there—making us ponder the<br />
fact that at least the unknown workers succeeded in<br />
keeping the land for community purposes, the monument<br />
to the fireman had been removed from its central<br />
position on the main square and taken to a garden<br />
nearby (fig 2c). In its place now stands a discrete iron<br />
statue of a fireman (fig 2d). There was no clue, whatsoever<br />
as to where the Rotunda das Águas Livres<br />
monument could be. It had been dismantled.<br />
L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE – ANA BIGOTTE VIEIRA – 85
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