Past
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MY ROOTS, YOUR ORIGIN
Sarah Navasse 8 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Last year, Sarah Navasse's drawing workshop had to fit in half a suitcase to deploy from one place to another: France, Brazil, United States. The feeling of uprooting, present for several years during her expatriation in Texas, strangely dissipated with the life that grew within her. Her art takes shape... Read more -
Despite the Distance We Remain Destined
GROUP SHOW 8 Sep - 7 Oct 2023 Despite the Distance, We Remain Destined is a group exhibition that brings together recent work of five contemporary artists from West Asia and North Africa, including Mays Almoosawi, Dora Dalila Cheffi, Elham Etemadi, Bayan Kiwan, and Anhar Salem. Distance–measurable or not, physical or emotional–exists in the various forms of our... Read more -
EFFET DE SERRE
Lin Wenjie 4 May - 17 Jun 2023 Lin Wenjie's painting comes from afar. One thinks of Lucian Freud or Eric Fischl and his characteristic 'neo-realism', which is also found in China and continues to inspire Liu Xiaodong. We also think of this atmospheric device in the same way as we used to think of the cinematic New... Read more -
POETIC MECHANICS
SOLO EXHIBITION ADAMA SYLLA 22 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 At the age of 30 in 1964, on his return from Europe, the prospect of having to archive and document his present intensified, as Adama Sylla became aware of the turning point that was taking place around him. Because 'documentation is the memory of a country, because today's daily life... Read more
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THE WORLD AGAINST THE WORLD
Eser Gündüz 10 Dec 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Our contemporary era is rife with tensions and violent confrontations, from the war in Ukraine to the upsurge in nationalism around the world. Militia, the exhibition's masterpiece, shows two soldiers shaking hands. Is it an armistice or a white peace? The two men belong to the army, but their uniforms,... Read more -
EVERYTHING IS CHAOS
Lattara archaeological site, Henri Prades Museum, Montpellier. 19 Nov 2022 - 3 Apr 2023 Opening the doors of the archaeological collections to contemporary art is one of the special features of the Lattara-musée Henri Prades archaeological site, which each year invites an artist to immerse themselves in the museum's permanent exhibition. The resulting exhibition establishes a fertile dialogue between contemporary works of art, most... Read more -
A REAL UTOPIA
Elham Etemadi 17 Nov - 3 Dec 2022 Born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1983. Elham Etemadi lives and works in Paris. In 2009, she graduated from Tehran Art University. Since 2019, she has held a doctorate in contemporary art at the University of Strasbourg. Our eyes is first drawn to the story behind each of these paintings, this... Read more -
Under the sky of shiraz
Alireza Shojain 7 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 In Shojaian's earlier works, we see an attempt to paint an image of the male body in a different way from that imposed by society. The image of a strong, muscular body that follows the imposed form of masculinity in order to serve a certain ideology. In the Sous Le... Read more
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Habibi, the revolutions of love
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. 27 Sep 2022 - 19 Mar 2023 How are sexual and gender identities represented in contemporary art? How do they circulate? What aesthetic strategies do they deploy to describe and confront societies? Photography, painting, video, performance, literature, animation...: the artists have their say, and their singular narratives sketch out their doubts and fragilities. Continuing the IMA's tradition... Read more -
The shadow of a doubt
Curator : Adrien Poirier 1 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film Shadow of a Doubt featured a young girl plagued by doubts about her uncle's supposedly murderous profile. Doubt, which questions the truth and real appearance of things, spares no human being, whatever their sex, origin or place in the social hierarchy. Artists, for their part, often... Read more -
COSMOGONIES ZINSOU, AN AFRICAN COLLECTION
Montpellier, MO.CO. 3 Jul - 10 Oct 2022 The LIXE archaeological mission has just uncovered one of the oldest burial sites on the Mediterranean coast, and also the oldest ritual site dedicated to drowned lovers between two shores. The results have just been published in the journal Motawasit, and the reconstructed monument is being presented for the first... Read more -
LAYLA ليلة
Curator : Ines Geoffroy 1 Jun - 1 Jul 2022 Caught in the throat by financial worries and cornered by property developers, rue Quincampoix lesbian bar Le Troisième Lieu was forced to close its doors in 2012, after months of resistance. Nearly a decade later, the La La Lande gallery opened on the same street, just a stone's throw from... Read more
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LOVE LETTERS
Héla Ammar 23 Apr - 21 May 2022 The story begins with an impossible romance between the son of a nationalist who founded Tunisia's first republican party and a young Corsican woman in the 1940s. During the protectorate, this forbidden love embraces the history of both Tunisia and France. A game of 'je t'aime moi non plus' that... Read more -
MY LOVED ONES احبائي
Musée de la Fondation Zinsou, Ouidah, Bénin 15 Apr - 14 Sep 2022 There are civilizations that have left many archaeological traces, and these traces can be seen in certain museums, in history books, in the minds to which their history has been passed on. Other civilizations are less well known, or totally unknown because their histories have been forgotten, erased, drowned under... Read more -
We were thousand under the table
Palais de Tokyo, Paris 14 Apr - 4 Sep 2022 We were thousand under the table, Aïcha Snoussi's first solo exhibition at a French institution, gives her the opportunity to unfold her sprawling practice, which has its roots in drawing, to embrace sculpture, installation and sound composition. Borrowing from the aesthetic codes of both science fiction and archaeology, bridging the... Read more -
OBJECTS IN MOTION WILL STAY IN MOTION
KEVIN - ADEMOLA SANGOSANYA 19 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 OBJECTS IN MOTION WILL STAY IN MOTION (An in depth conversation with the Ori) is a high-frequency sensory and symbolic zone that invites us to resonate with that of our spiritual intuition called 'Ori' in Yoruba cosmogony. Literally meaning 'head', this metaphysical concept guides French-Nigerian artist Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya's reflections on... Read more
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WITH OPEN HEART
Paris, Institut du Monde Arabe 4 Feb 2022 - 6 Feb 2023 Discovering the works of Slimen Elkamel is to feel a particular strength, that of apprehending the world differently. At a time when uncertainty 'is gaining ground without us being able to conceive how', the artist invites us to take alternative paths, those of a 'new, floating knowledge, which gives you... Read more -
HULA HOOP
Bechir Boussandel 9 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 Through his creations, Béchir Boussandel seeks to reappropriate space and time, in a poetic relationship with drawings and the surface of his canvases. He transforms them into uncluttered still lifes, giving them a universal character. For this new stage in his plastic research, Béchir Boussandel explores expanses beyond the canvas,... Read more -
LEITMOTIV
GROUP SHOW 10 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Character, object, idea or emotion, the leitmotif marks canvas, walls, fabrics, bodies, skin and minds. Like Hector Berlioz's idée fixe in his Symphonie Fantastique, the leitmotif repeats its obsessive existence ad infinitum, here in a cloud of Indian ink motifs, ceramic tiles as the only horizon, textile ornaments, architectural lines... Read more -
STATE OF PLACES
GROUP SHOW 20 May - 5 Jun 2021 'Act in your place and think with the world' said poet and thinker Édouard Glissant. To do so, you must first have examined its state. Before acting, the artist thinks, observes the world, and notes that its places are in all their states, stricken by a dichotomy, on either side... Read more
