Art, History, Memory
Working with artists, activists and scholars
Art, History, Memory
Working with artists, activists and scholars
2021, Fragments of Repair/Ecole La Colonie. Writing and producing a collective study program realized as part of the Fragments of Repair project (April 17 – August 1, 2021), organized by BAK, Utrecht with artist Kader Attia, Paris and hosted by La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Pantin. Ecole La Colonie proposed to revisit the narratives that are being elaborated about the moment we’re living through, drawing on decolonial strategies as a means of “joyful survival” and on the practice of collective acts of “reparation”, despite the cruel capitalist “economy of exhaustion”.

2019, curating the performance “Haitian Revolutionaries Inviting Themselves to Joséphine and Napoléon’s Home”, Musée Rueil Malmaison, a palace where Joséphine and Napoléon both lived. The collective performance included a lecture based on Toussaint L’Ouverture’s memoirs, Romantic poems, legal texts, historical narratives, and music.
2018, co-curating “Regards croisés” Musée Delacroix, which invited the public to reflect on the afterlife of Orientalism, withwith the Fondation Thuram contre le racisme.
2012, production and carrying out of a series of visits entitled “The Slave in Le Louvre, An Invisible Humanity” for the Paris Triennal curated by Okwui Enwezor. I was not looking for the literal representation of the enslaved but rather at the ways in which products of colonial slavery entered European paintings and decorative arts (coffee pots, sugar bowls, teapots, tobacco…), how social tastes, cultural life, and self-representation were transformed by the slave economy, how landscapes naturalized black bondage. The visits were carried out again in 2013, 2014, and 2018.
2010, Exhibition “Slave Trade, Slavery and Their Abolition” exhibition, Jardin du Luxembourg, Senate, Paris.
2002, Documenta 11, curating Platform 3, “Créolité and Creolization” in Saint Lucia which brought together scholars, writers, and artists engaged with the notions of Créolité and Creolization — Derek Walcott, Dame Pearlette Louis, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Ginette Ramassamy, Carpanin Marimoutou, Robert Chaudenson, Jean Bernabé, Annie Paul, Petrine Archer-Straw, Stuart Hall, Gerardo Mosquera, and Isaac Julien.