Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material. Its contributions invite us to "communicate with the invisible," in the words of the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé in her novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. It is a matter of conjuring away oblivion and erasure: to revive connections and lineage, something both familiar and held in common, so as to find strength, protection, guidance and, perhaps, healing.
In this issue: Texts by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (poet and independent scholar), Isis Labeau-Caberia (fiction and non-fiction writer), Simone Lagrand (poet and pawolèz ["wordsmith"]), LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (scholar-artist), as well as a text by Yasmine Belhadi (art critic and curator) on the transperformances of Myriam Mihindou (multidisciplinary artist); A conversation between Dorothée Munyaneza (multidisciplinary artist exploring dance, poetry and experimental music) and Amandine Nana (curator of the group show
Tituba, Who Protects Us?); an interview of Barbara Chase-Riboud (novelist, poet, sculptor and draughtswoman) by Guillaume Désanges (president of the Palais de Tokyo ); an interview of Lithuanian artists
Deimantas Narkevičius (artist and filmmaker) and Anastasia Sosunova (visual artist) by Neringa Bumblienė and Émilie Villez (curators of the group show
Borders Are Nocturnal Animals /
Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai) ; Special visual and textual contributions, as well as portfolios by Malala Andrialavidrazana (visual artist and photographer), Massabielle Brun (visual artist and poet), Miryam Charles (director, producer and cinematographer), Liz Johnson Artur (photographer), Naudline Pierre (visual artist) et Claire Zaniolo (multidisciplinary artist, researcher and artistic director).
This issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (17.10 2024 – 05.01 2025), and in particular : Tituba, Who Protects Us?, a group show which invites artists with Carribean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality; Barbara Chase-Riboud's exhibition Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released ; Myriam Mihindou's exhibition Praesentia ; Malala Andrialavidrazana's exhibition Figures ; the group show Borders Are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai, organized on the occasion of the Season of Lithuania in France.
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P L S since 2023) offers an in-depth perspective on the exhibitions and program of the
Palais de Tokyo.
Palais allows people to see contemporary art in a topical way, as often as possible from the point of view of the artists themselves. Each issue of the magazine includes dossiers, interviews, essays, special projects and inserts, all contributed by artists, art critics, historians or theorists, making
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