Photo credit : © Fatoumata Diabaté, À chacun son dimanche, 2019.
RÉSIDENCE 1+2 & AFRICA 2020
In partnership with the Rio Loco festival, “Women Take the Hill” brings together six African photographers, from different backgrounds and practices, around the same desire: to take a questioning and demanding look at the issues of identity and the place of women in African societies, its diasporas and its multiple representations.
The common thread of this exhibition? The same message of emancipation or progress towards gender equality, in Africa as elsewhere. From Fatoumata Diabaté and Amsatou Diallo (Mali), Rahima Gambo to Adeola Olagunju (Nigeria), Godelive Kabena Kasangati (DRC) to Adama Delphine Fawundu (Sierra Leone), each photographer, with his or her own practice and sensibility, expresses his or her own inner voice.
This collective exhibition is built from a double curatorship, that of the very committed Fatima Bocoum (Malian independent curator associated with the 2019 Bamako Biennial, activist for women’s and lles’ rights) and Philippe Guionie (director of the Résidence 1+2 and former curator of the 2015 Bamako Biennial). According to them, “more than ever, Africa is questioning its plural identities and is gradually reshuffling the cards of a sensitive, multiform and multidisciplinary I in which African women play an essential role as artists”.
In addition to a transversal look at Africa today through this “snapshot” of twelve images exhibited on the Prairie des Filtres, a meeting-debate (12.06 at the auditorium Les Abattoirs-Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse) and a photo studio to have one’s portrait taken (at the Château d’Eau gallery) will be offered to the public.
The photographers and their series
INFORMATION
Exhibition from 13 to 20 June 2021 Prairie des Filtres – Espace village
