Gaëlle Choisne: We are all Negroes

I create installations at the nexus of sculpture and photography. An hybridization between image, photography and video. Creolisation of a chaos-world.

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Daniela Yohannes : Eternal Space.

” […] My practice allows me to explore fictional narratives, which enable me to remove all concrete limitation and boundaries. I make art to try to understand myself, my environment and the greater world beyond. […] I paint characters that investigate and confront the void. I paint characters that are facets of myself, but not earthbound. I paint characters that stem from a distant, lingering yearning for freedom.” (extract from Daniela’s ‘Artist Statement’)

Hack for (y)our rights

AFRICA’SOUT! is a creative dynamic space made to initiate + create radical ideas that change the way we all engage with Africa. Highlighting the urgency of pressing social and political issues, they, like us, believe in ‘Imaginative Activism’. And we are more than thrilled they asked us to collaborate on a short art curation format to be also featured through their instagram : @africasout. <3

UNDERCOVER AFROFUTURISM (2/2)

Last year in october, we subtitled Sun Ra’s unique ‘Space is the Place’ in French. It was about time we share it with you ! / Though, as we are the talkative type it is also the opportunity to share with you few thoughts we developed on a speech in Johannesburg at the occasion of Black Portraitures III Conferences (november 2016).

UNDERCOVER AFROFUTURISM (1/2)

Last year in october, we subtitled Sun Ra’s unique ‘Space is the Place’ in French. It was about time we share it with you ! / Though, as we are the talkative type it is also the opportunity to share with you few thoughts we developed on a speech in Johannesburg at the occasion of Black Portraitures III Conferences (november 2016).

The Importance of Backwardness – 1/2

“Late Countries”,”Underdeveloped Countries”, “South” & “Souths”, “Third World”, “Fourth World”,”Sad Tropics” or “Land of Good Hopes”… and so many other words – more or less politically correct – are used to designate “lagging”, late or “backward” spaces…

The Importance of Backwardness – 2/2

“Late Countries”,”Underdeveloped Countries”, “South” & “Souths”, “Third World”, “Fourth World”,”Sad Tropics” or “Land of Good Hopes”… and so many other words – more or less politically correct – are used to designate “lagging”, late or “backward” spaces…

“Strange Fruit”: from a classic jazz number to modern art

The poem “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol became a notorious song performed by Billie Holiday in the late 1930s. The gesture and interpretation of the great Lady Day anchored “Strange Fruit” in the history of jazz and music. But beyond that, the black and white notes of the song also find, plastically, a dull or crying resonance, in any case – cruelly – evocative.