CAPASIA Exhibitions

This exhibition explores the knowledge that Europeans gained from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries about different environments, and the flora and fauna of the Indo-Atlantic world. From pearls to porcelain, from cod to coffee, passing though sugar and shells, this exhibition is a journey around the world through commodities

In the period 1500-1800 several cities across the Indian Ocean were cradles of global capitalism. Rather than a single center, numerous nodes of capitalist activity existed in select cities from East Africa to East Asia. These nodes were home to diverse artisanal industries, various forms of free/unfree labour, diasporic