This project is postponed to 2021 due to the new health measures taken to deal with the Coronavirus.
This conference by Christine Eyene proposes to trace a history of contemporary African and diasporic artistic practices marked by the experience of migration. Starting from the very definition of this term, the presentation will revolve around the forms of displacement that have most affected the visual artists whose work will be discussed. Migrations internal to the African continent and its diasporas, colonisation, exile, immigration, even reference to the past through orality or archival documents, are all themes that are the subject of aesthetic or conceptual concerns. In these situations, where difference and otherness are generally exacerbated, cultural or personal identity sometimes serves as an anchor to the artist’s discourse.
A proposition and curated by Versant Sud in collaboration with the Alcazar.
