Visual art is a lens through which cultural memory, collective consciousness, and personal identity become visible. This section investigates how images, objects, and artistic practices operate as forms of cultural diplomacy—communicating ideas across disciplines, mediating histories, and challenging aesthetic boundaries. We also look at how curatorial choices and interpretive frameworks can shape the narratives that artworks produce, and how new methods of art historiography might be developed to imagine more equitable global perspectives. Through essays and interviews, we explore how visual cultures examine and shape these narratives.

Our inaugural editorial cycle explores perception, interpretation, and the writing of cultural history across disciplines and geographies—asking how cultural knowledge infrastructures might remain open, plural, and alive, without collapsing into either relativism or authority.