Abstract

By associating the aesthetic experience to the ideas of sociality and common sense, we approach the question of a social act, which is a collective act of artistic creation, leading to the decolonization of the imaginary, in order to transform society and to conquer the world in its emotions. The contemporary artistic work claims to be of this logic. It is an aesthetic logic that refers to the active and collective decolonial process resulting from a certain creative imagination. This imagination is a sign revealing the freedom of Man. Thus, believing in a possible subterranean relationship between aesthetics and ethics and in a fruitful exchange between the world of art and the world of morality leads to the ideal of an art of living with the other. The ethical possibility of freedom lies in the aesthetic experience, particularly in what it hides of the ludic potential where the game makes the ethico-aesthetic interest of the artistic work a shared place. Thus, the term decolonial aesthetics can be associated with African artistic practices leading to the decolonization of the imaginary, transformation, innovation, evolution, in short, leading to revolution.