At the microphone of Bintou Simporé, Hugues Marly and Flavien Larcade, the artists unveil their works, produced for this exhibition, dedicated to their perception of the relations between the African continent and the rest of the globe.
For the last show of the season, Néo Géo set up its microphones at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMC) of Saint-Etienne! During the latter, guided tour in the company of Mo Laudi, curator of the exhibition, Aurélie Voltz, director of the museum and the artists exhibited until October 16 within the walls of the MAMC.
Worldmix 1: Étienne Tron’s “Secousse” mix
To begin this immersion, immersed in the worldmix of DJ and producer Etienne Tron, creator of the label jerk. A mix produced on the day of the opening of the exhibition, which Bintou Simporé invites you to relive.
Worldmix 2: immersion in Mo Laudi’s “Globalisto”
The artist and Dj Mo Laudi, curator of the exhibition, also produced a mix during this event. Discover a selection that made the walls of the MAMC in Saint-Étienne vibrate!
As a prelude, Mo Laudi presents a work he is exhibiting: “Restitution: renaming the collection”. A ceramic, a black fist raised to the sky, “symbol of the south african liberation movement” for Mo Laudi. This fist rubs shoulders with the bronze figurine of an African warrior armed with a firearm. She is “inspired by the restitution of bronze works in Benin”, and in connection with the fact that the city of Saint-Étienne was an important arms factory.
A WIND FROM ELSEWHERE
A Wind from Elsewhere is blowing between Paris and Mozambique for the Globalisto exhibition, but also in Saint Etienne, with the artist Euridice Zaituna Kala, which exhibits “Personal archives: exercise in emotional archeology“ one of his works, at the invitation of Mo Laudi: Aïcha Goblet was a black model, the muse of many artists. Here she is in a life-size portrait, a way of “question the lack of visibility of people of color, as well as their identity.” An analysis in accordance with the values of the exhibition, which she presents at the microphone of Flavien Larcade in front of this work.
Originally from Maputo in Mozambique, Euridice Zaituna Kala lives and works in Paris. In her works, she supports a reading of the world through the prism of the African continent. This reflection manifests itself through books, stories, performances or sculptures. She has produced multiple exhibitions around the world and in 2017 co-founded the “east” (Ephemeral Archival Station). This collective is a space for artistic research inscribed in the same thought as the artist.
HERE AND THERE
To present the exhibition, Bintou Simporé receives on this special “Globalisto” set Aurélie Voltz, director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMC) of Saint-Étienne and the curator of the exhibition, Mo Laudi. Together, they return to the decolonial values of “Globalisto”.
Extract :
“It is time for museums, with Western traditions, to open up and go to collections from other continents. It is absolutely necessary to tell new stories, those of the contemporary world which is open to a world without borders” (Aurélie Voltz)
“I have always been interested in these questions related to new philosophies. Knowing how we can think differently today, rather than through the European prism.” (Mo Laudi)
Interview with the artists
For this second part of Here and Elsewhere, Bintou Simporé and Hugues Marly receive the artists Josèpha Ntjam, Raphaël Barontini, and Myriam Mihindou, to share the meanings of their works.
Born in Metz in 1992, Josepha Ntjam lives and works in Saint-Etienne. A graduate of the National Schools of Art in Bourges and Paris, she directs her projects towards “the deconstruction of hegemonic discourses on origin, identity and race”. She draws her works from her family past and the pan-African movements for independence (her grandfather was killed by the French army in Cameroon in 1955). For the Globalisto exhibition. A Philosophy in Movement”, it offers sculptures, seabed, “hybrid” pieces, in connection with the theme of the exhibition.
Raphaël Barontoni was born in 1984 in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) where he still works. He feeds his works with the thought of authors such as Edouard Glissant and Aimé Césaire, around “creolization” (thought which wants the mixture of cultures to bring new forms of creation and reading of the world). A thought in line with the “Globalisto” exhibition, for which he composed large colorful canvases, portraits in homage to figures of the 18th century (Saint Maurice, the “Black Centurion” in the 13ᵉ century or Toussaint Louverture in the 18ᵉ).
Franco-Gabonese visual artist, Myriam Mihindou focuses her work on the relationship to the body and its appearances. She “questions energies, stories, landscapes, bodies and materials, paying particular attention to transmission”. “In the series entitled “The Shaken Tongue”, she literally and physically works the plasticity of words with copper wires, embroidery and cuts from printed works” (MAMC).
THE FAVORITE
Crush, still from Saint-Étienne, for the exhibition “Bifurcations, Choosing the essential” to be seen at the Cité du Design, as part of the 2022 International Design Biennale Hugues Marly went there to pose his microphone, guided by Amélie Simard, mediator. Immerse yourself in this African “Singulier Plurielles” focus with them.
Hugues Marly then continues his journey to meet the artist Wilfried Nakeu. For the exhibition, he proposes a work in the form of an NFT (non-fungible token)
Born in 1990 in Yaoundé (Cameroon) Wilfried Nakeu is a multimedia artist. A graduate in computer science, he likes to tap into this know-how to fuel his work. In this one, I-he “’explores environmental and decolonial consciousness, African knowledge systems and spirituality” (MAMC).
Meeting with Porky Hefer
To continue this tour of the artists of the exhibition, Bintou Simporé and Hugues Marly give the microphone to Porky Hefer. The artist has created a giant nest for this exhibition, in which visitors can settle down to “understand their reality differently”. This “funny bird” is accompanied by the director of the museum, Aurélie Voltz.
Artist from South Africa, Porky has been living and working in France for a few months. His work is turned towards large design installations and sculptures, which redefine perspectives. To build them, he explains that he draws inspiration from “ttraditional stand-alone techniques”, from the African continent.
“Follow the leader”, because notWe are coming out of the nest of the South African and Arles artist Porky Hefer, a very comfortable nest that you will see at the “Globalisto” exhibition, alongside clay and metal sculptures that are those of Marie-Aimee Fattoucheartist based in Aubervilliers.
Also to be seen at the MAMC in Saint-Étienne: earthy canvases in the color of the soils of the childhood village of the artist Moshekwa Langa, a village in Limpopo in South Africa, where a platinum mine was discovered. Another (iconoclastic) installation, that of the American Dread Scottwhich features the American flag, but also the video game-like films of Sara Sadik (Marseille), chronicler of the existence of a young man on the verge of a life change.
The Nigerian Otobong Nkanga also exhibits tapestries, in the form of a “botanical board”. They are embroidered from the plant from which the cola nut comes, widely used in West African rituals. Known for its stimulating properties, it is of great importance to the Coca Cola brand, which has used it to create its globally purchased and consumed beverages.
A total of 19 artists exhibit their works at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint Etienne. Now it’s up to you to discover them!
Worldmix 3: Guedra Guedra’s after party show at the Awazé Café (Saint-Étienne)
After this guided tour, the Néo Géo team invites you to stretch your legs with one of the most danceable sets by Moroccan DJ Guedra Guedra! The masked artist ignited theAwaze Cafe de Saint-Etienne, where the late evening of the opening of this exhibition “Globalisto. A Philosophy in Motion”.
The DJ and composer Guedra Guedra (Abdellah M.Hassak), currently based in Marrakech, feeds his music with traditional sounds from Mauritania, Senegal, Benin and the Maghreb countries, all accompanied by a percussive and intended “underground” electro. “. His latest project,Vexillology” was released last year, while waiting for its next productions promised for soon.
Magazine Playlist:
B Love – Lucy
Viviano Torres – Que Viva Mandela
Kabeaushe – Hadi Lini
Moodymann – Why Do U Feel
Sound design Raphaël Barontini and Mike ladd
Firmin Viry – Valet valet
James BKS – No Unga Bunga
Mgababa Queens – Akulalwa Esoweto (1973)
Nick Cave and Bad Seeds – Into my arms
The mix of Guedra Guedra
It was Neo Geo season 21-22. We were happy to accompany you every Sunday morning from 9 a.m. to noon. Thank you to the guests, artists, writers, cultural activists from here and elsewhere. Thanks to the show’s chief director Benoît Thuault and the team: Christian Nzonta, Tristan Guérin, Guillaume Girault, Lucile Aussel, Mathieu Boudon, Nabil Chafa, Melvin Schlemer. In writing this year: Flavien Larcade, Véronique Mortaigne, Judah Roger, Hugues Marly, Léna Gandrey, Isadora Dartial, Jeanne Lacaille, Sophie Marchand, Esteli Hernandez Ortiz, Mélanie Mallet, and at Nova.fr: Sébastien Carriau, Mathilde de Capèle and Bastien Stisi.
Thanks also to Nisrine Alaoui from Combat, Lucas Martinet, Aurélie Voltz and their team from the MAMC in Saint Etienne, as well as Hélene Iyassu from the Vert Boucan collective, and the Awazé café in Saint Etienne! See you soon and have a nice summer with Radio Nova.
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