Until January 5, the Cartier-Bresson Foundation expose Remember to Forget of Mame-Diarra Niang. The curator of the exhibition Clément Chéroux, Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, presents it as follows:
The black body is at the heart of the new series by French artist Mame-Diarra Niang. She does not wish to define it or tell it. On the contrary, she wants to free it from the representations imposed by centuries of Western narration. She therefore seeks to abstract it, through what she calls non-portrait forms. Each of the images in this tetralogy can be seen as an evocation of the artist herself. “What makes me me?” “, she asks herself. His personality cannot be reduced to a fixed, assigned or subjugated identity. It is made up of experiences, memories and forgettings. It is therefore constantly evolving. It is this flow, this territory in permanent reconfiguration, that she explores. Through this project, begun during a period of long confinement, by rephotographing screens, Mame-Diarra Niang willingly plays with these defects characterized by traditional photography such as blur, distortions or halos. Like a psychologist using the ink blots of a Rorschach test to reveal the unconscious, she uses these disjunctions of contemporary imagery as so many projection surfaces. “I am this blur,” she said.
Clément Chéroux
Mame-Diarra Niang : Remember to Forget
Until January 5, 2025
Cartier-Bresson Foundation
79 Rue des Archives
75003 Paris
+33 1 40 61 50 50
Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
www.henricartierbresson.org
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