Morphologie du rêve #6, de la série Sama Guent Guii © Mame-Diarra Niang. Courtesy of Stevenson Cape Town/ Johannesburg/ Amsterdam
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Mame-Diarra Niang – Remember to Forget
09/10/2024 - 05/01/2025
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
79 Rue des Archives
75003 Paris
www.henricartierbresson.org/
The black body is at the heart of French artist Mame-Diarra Niang’s new series. She wants to untie it from the ways it has been represented by centuries of Western narratives. She therefore seeks to make it abstract, through what she calls forms of non-portraits.
Each of the images in this tetralogy can be viewed as an evocation of the artist herself. "What constitutes me?" she ponders. Her personality cannot be reduced to a fixed, imposed or subjected identity. It’s made up of experience, memory and forgetting. As such, it is in perpetual flux. It is this dynamic, this constantly shifting territory, that she explores.
Remember to Forget is the photographer’s first monographic exhibition in France.
Æther (2024), the series that concludes the exhibition, is original and shown here for the very first time.
09/10/2024 - 05/01/2025
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
79 Rue des Archives
75003 Paris
www.henricartierbresson.org/
The black body is at the heart of French artist Mame-Diarra Niang’s new series. She wants to untie it from the ways it has been represented by centuries of Western narratives. She therefore seeks to make it abstract, through what she calls forms of non-portraits.
Each of the images in this tetralogy can be viewed as an evocation of the artist herself. "What constitutes me?" she ponders. Her personality cannot be reduced to a fixed, imposed or subjected identity. It’s made up of experience, memory and forgetting. As such, it is in perpetual flux. It is this dynamic, this constantly shifting territory, that she explores.
Remember to Forget is the photographer’s first monographic exhibition in France.
Æther (2024), the series that concludes the exhibition, is original and shown here for the very first time.