Stories are created by entanglement. Of a story, only its memory remains, a perpetual reformulation, a repetition of the spoken word, the trace printed, or the song that we are capable of reproducing in part. The artists Tuli Mekondjo and…
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Kambui Olujimi : un monde onirique fait d’inévitabilités
Avec sa première exposition personnelle en France, l’artiste américain Kambui Olujimi poursuit son exploration du monde des rêves et ses multiples interprétations, en déployant une œuvre d’une grande délicatesse où prennent forme ses réflexions sur la mémoire collective et son…
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Josèfa Ntjam : Leurres et lueurs identitaires
Comme moi, Josèfa Ntjam est une enfant de la diaspora. Comme moi, c’est une métisse culturelle « franco-africaine » qui, au gré de ses rencontres, n’a certainement pas échappé aux questions de savoir d’où elle venait (vraiment). Pourtant, existe-t-il un…
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Barbara Asei Dantoni : Touching the invisible
Hybridization, syncretism, interbreeding: these three words come to mind when you dive into the radiant universe of Barbara Asei Dantoni, three words which express precisely how much her “totem creations” are the meeting-point of several dimensions in perpetual interaction. They…
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Kristine Tsala: Miroir conteur .
Miroir conteur Kristine Tsala laisse son art porter sa voix et partager son vécu. Pour Memoria : récits d’une autre Histoire, la plasticienne prend la parole à travers une installation : Restitution1. Cette œuvre est constituée d’objets narrateurs d’un quotidien…
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Na Chainkua Reindorf : An emphatic assertion: Or self trough the mask.
Na Chainkua Reindorf takes the centuries-long history of masking—which is related to dancing, storytelling, and weaving of materials into costumes—and uses its ideologies and methods to explore what she refers to as “(re)claiming agency in self-expression. Born in Ghana,…
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Carine Mansan Chowanek : In search of themselves and the self : At the sources of spirituality
Seventy-seven is the number of black busts thatmake up Ethiopian, the monumental sculpture by Carine Mansan Chowanek featured in the exhibition Memoria: accounts of another History. Seventy-seven, like the number of times Biblical tradition tells brothers to forgive one another,…
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Lulama Wolf: Undulating curves that create lithe bodies in space
“Not only did bodies tend to indicate a world beyond themselves, but this movement beyond their own boundaries, a movement of boundary itself, appeared to be quite central to what bodies are.*” – Judith Butler Lulama Wolf’s practice is formulated…
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Mous Lamrabat: Photographs from the Middle of Everywhere
We are no strangers to the sometimes-nameless photographs that surge the internet, those images that invite collective awe and depart from the exclusive realms of fine art to make their way to the very public domains of the world wide…
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ART X Lagos and the African Digital Revolution
Over the past 18 months of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the art world has engaged widely with digital platforms in ways that have created more visibility for artists, art professionals, institutions, and even a boom in innovative online exhibitions and…
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