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Georgina Maxim & Tuli Mekondjo : The reawakening of muted powers

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…

12th March 202412th February 2025Articles Artwork Interpretations by Celine

Ravelle Pillay: The Weight of History

“The heart of history is a critical discourse that is antithetical to spontaneous memory. History is perpetually suspicious of memory, and its true mission is to suppress and destroy it.” – Pierre Nora Ravelle Pillay’s work delves into the heart…

11th March 202412th February 2025Articles Artpapers Artwork Interpretations Tribunes by Ludovic Nsangou

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…

6th March 202412th February 2025Articles Artpapers Artwork Interpretations by Ludovic Nsangou

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…

16th February 202412th February 2025Articles Artpapers Artwork Interpretations Perspectives by Ludovic Nsangou

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,…

16th January 202412th February 2025Articles Artpapers Artwork Interpretations by Ludovic Nsangou

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,…