Welcome to a seminar organised by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons!
Smoke in the Eye – Rupture in the Colonial Archive (2020)
Munish Wadhia – artist talk based on his residency and exhibition at the Match Museum (Tändsticksmuseet), Jönköping
A Rite of Passage (2025–2026) Slussen, draws on multiple sources, from Hindu mythological prints by Narottam Narayan and Ravi Varma (late 19th–early 20th century) to pattern motifs by Owen Jones (The Grammar of Ornament, 1856) and William Morris (c. 1860s–1880s), alongside fragments of European landscape painting (17th–19th century). The foreground incorporates archival materials from the Match Museum residency (2020), including late 19th–early 20th century matchbox labels, Swedish Match publications, and world fair posters.
Munish Wadhia’s current project investigates a rifle looted by Swedish naval officer Axel Lind of Hageby during 1857 at Kaiserbhagh, Lucknow, India, now held at the Ethnographic Museum.
From Imperial Markets to Postcolonial Networks: Swedish Match Industry and the Reconfiguration of Global Trade in South Asia, c. 1920–1970
Introduction to the research project (Swedish Research Council) by Eleonor Marcussen, Niladri Chatterjee (LNU & LNUC Concurrences), and John Hennessey (Örebro University)
This seminar is organised by the Cluster for Colonial Connections and Comparisons. To participate on Zoom contact: eleonor.marcussen@lnu.se or eleonora.poggio@lnu.se.
