"One of the IVAM's core working lines over these last six years is grounded in an intense desire to see, discover, build and develop new narratives about the social, cultural, artistic and even personal and/or affective relationships between the different countries bordering the Mediterranean area. With this basic line of intervention, the museum aspires to underscore its individual personality while at once it stands as a distinctive symbol of its concerns and interests. Over this span of time, the IVAM has striven to accentuate its Mediterranean character with the hope of decolonizing imaginaries shaped by an orientalist perception and replacing it with a new more or less shared collective imaginary and new ways of representing contemporaneity in this geographical area."--Publisher's description