Justice
Paris May Not Welcome the 'Human Zoo'
A white South African artist's re-creation of a colonialist tradition exhibiting "exotic" people is drawing ire across Europe.
An uncomfortable exhibit is scheduled to make its way to Paris this month, but the controversy around it has already arrived.
"Exhibit B" puts local black actors on display in objectifying positions as a reference to the late 19th- and early 20th-century phenomenon of the "human zoo." Popular in Europe and the United States, human zoos showcased non-whites, mostly from colonized territories, for audiences to observe in parklike settings.