"The Power of My Hands", 16 African women artists take over their representation
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Stacey Gillian Abe Enya Sa, 2017 Print on dibond, 150 x 150 cm Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda © Stacey Gillian Abe / Photo Giulio Molfes
Text by: Sébastien Jédor Follow
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"The Power of My Hands" brings together 16 artists, only women and only from Portuguese-speaking or English-speaking countries, hardly ever shown in France.
An original exhibition in more than one way, at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
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Painting, embroidery, photo or pottery, the works evoke daily life or the history of women, intimate or more political questions.
Odile Burluraux is one of the curators of the exhibition.
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One of the aims of the exhibition is also to bring out what has been hidden, invisible or silenced.
Whether it is bodies, stories, all of this is put before us and at the same time with a lot of vibrations and joy.
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A vibration, a joy that we find in Angolan Ana Silva.
She prints her works on jute bags… Bags in which arrive tons of clothes that Europe gets rid of…
Women artists on the continent take over their own representation
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The idea is that it's normally supposed to be thrown in the trash, torn off, messed up… I collect this, wash it, and bring it back here with another vision."
So that we can see this kind of totally neglected object in another way, from another angle.
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With
The Power of My Hands
, women artists from the continent take over their own representation.
This is not the least merit of this exhibition and the Africa 2020 season.
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The Power of My Hands
, until August 22, 2021 at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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