黑料不打烊

From the creation of the journal Pr茅sence Africaine to Revue Noire, "Paris Noir" traces the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1940s to the 2000s. The exhibition highlights 150 African and Afro-descendant artists, from Africa to the Americas, whose works have often never been shown in France. All contributed to a cosmopolitan Paris鈥攁 place of resistance and creativity鈥攖hat fostered a wide variety of practices, from identity awareness to the search for transcultural artistic languages. Their impact is particularly significant in the redefinition of modernities and postmodernities. The exhibition explores half a century of struggles for emancipation, from African independence movements to the fall of apartheid, including battles against racism in France.

鈥淏lack Paris鈥� offers a vibrant immersion in a cosmopolitan Paris, a place of resistance  and creation that gave rise to a wide variety of practices, from a new awareness of identity  to the search for trans-cultural artistic languages. From international to Afro-Atlantic abstractions via surrealism and free figuration, this historical voyage reveals the importance of artists  of African descent in the redefinition of Modernisms and Post-modernisms.

Four installations produced especially for the exhibition by Val茅rie John, Nathalie Leroy Fi茅vee, Jay Ramier and Shuck One punctuate the visit and provide contemporary insights into this memory. At the centre, a circular matrix takes up the motif of the Black Atlantic, the ocean as a disk, a metonymy of the Caribbean and the 鈥淲hole-World鈥�, to use the term coined by Martinican poet Edouard Glissant, as a metaphor for the Parisian space. Attentive to circulations, networks and friendships, the exhibition proposes a living and often entirely new map of Paris.