Catalog of an exhibition held at La Villette, Paris, France, March 29-May 28, 2017 and Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France, April 6-September 3, 2017. Includes index.
Summary:
La deuxieme edition du festival pluridisciplinaire 100% se consacre, cette annee, a Afrique. La Villette presente une exposition dediee aux grandes villes africaines, 'Afriques Capitales'. L'occasion de decouvrir la scene artistique contemporaine africaine a travers peintures, photos, installations, videos, sculptures, creations sonores. Afriques Capitales rassemblera plus de dix productions specialement realisees pour l'exposition, dont plusieurs oeuvres monumentales, et une soixantaine d'artistes, toutes generations confondues: Pascale Marthine Tayou, William Kentridge, Akinbode Akinbiyi, James Webb, Leila Alaoui, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok, Lavar Munroe, Hassan Hajjaj, Abdoulaye Konate, Heba Amin, Nabil Boutros' De nombreux artistes seront exposes pour la premiere fois en France. "The challenge of this exhibition is to invent 'the city of all cities': a city that belongs to no one but in which everyone can find their own personal bearings. Some will seek to recognise this city in Africa or France, but in reality we are immersed in a fiction whose aim is to highlight what is essential and to plunge the audience into a new and different truth, a truth made up of heterochrony, heterotopy and heterology. The African city which some like to fantasise about does not exist. It is nothing but the metaphorical symbol of a more organic and vital question: how to live together in spaces whose heterogeneity is apparently insurmountable?" -- pages 19-21
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