Show “Mailles” by Dorothée Munyaneza

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Discovered in France with "Samedi détente" and "Unwanted", the magnetic Dorothée Munyaneza creates a choral piece embodied by six black women linked by the invisible fil. A portrait where the intimate and the universal are one...

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They live in Belo Horizonte, Port-au-Prince, Johannesburg, Chicago, Bamako, Seville and Berlin. They are black, African or Afro-descendant. They are "curved, arching, grey hair, frizzy hair, ebony skin, taut skin, body in movement". They are Dorothée Munyaneza, crossed by their commitment, imbued with their gestures and their languages, melting pot of their words. After drawing on her personal and family history to create, the Rwandan artist makes women and artists whose words remain inaudible and whose bodies are often invisible. She takes in her nets the costume designer Stéphanie Coudert, already present in Unwanted, to sculpt the singularity of their bodies. Through their stories, their voices, their songs and their movements, they express themselves through these different moults, these different skins; they inhabit new spaces, proud to remain unsubdued in the face of adversity.