GLARUS.- This group exhibition brings together eight Swiss and international positions concerned with objects that have connotations of colonial history and their integration into bourgeois cultures. Collections of exotica have a long, constantly changing tradition, from powerful representation to fetishist or trivial and banal decoration. Possessing an exotic object is an imaginary entry into another world and a sigh of the knowledge, power and wealth of the new owner. It is almost always a matter of the fascination of the exotic, wild and primordial. Exotica evoke in the viewer a romantic shudder of an exciting and mysterious otherness. Major currents in art history – especially Primitivism in the 20th century – have been inspired by this fascination. At the same time, since Claude Levi-Strauss’s “The Savage Mind” and “Tristes Tropiques”, there has been a discourse on change in contact with western culture. Today, under the key word of “