Wendy Shaw is professor of the art history of Islamic cultures at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on the impact of coloniality on art-related institutions, modern art and pre-modern discourses of perception, with emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and regions of Islamic hegemony. She has written «Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire» (University of California Press, 2003), «Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic» (IB Tauris, 2011), and «What is ‹Islamic› Art: Between Religion and Perception» (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).