Guided Tour at the Exhibition Opening – New Caledonia: An Archipelago at a Crossroads

New Caledonia: An Archipelago at a Crossroads is the result of ethnographic research conducted across the islands of the South Pacific between 2014 and 2023 by Dr Karolina Kania – an anthropologist and researcher at the Faculty of Business Administration, Prague University of Economics and Business. The exhibition tells the story of this French territory – its history, its Kanak and Caldoche communities, and the multicultural fabric of everyday life on the archipelago. Visitors are invited behind the scenes of the Yam Festival and a customary wedding, introduced to local customs, and taken along unexpected Czech threads. Karolina Kania's photographs and accounts have been artistically interpreted by ethnologist and designer Patrycja Bulska-Wolas, who translated ethnographic experience into visual form expressed through a series of posters. The exhibition brings New Caledonian reality closer to its audience – without exoticisation, and with empathy and curiosity.