WRITTEN IN FRENCH
Invited to reinvest the Marc Ladreit gallery in Lacharrière, the Franco-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou offers a unique installation that celebrates Punu culture through collections of musical instruments and sound archives kept at the museum. Through the work of ceramics, the assembly of objects, sculptures, shapes, materials, sounds and the interactions sparked with visitors, she offers a work that allows you to see, hear and feel the relationship she interacts with its culture.
Myriam Mihindou pays tribute to the punu mourners, of which she herself is one, true companions of souls who guide the deceased to the afterlife and the living in their mourning. She re-examines an ancestral practice as well as the stories and myths that accompany it and, through her plural work, "total, performative, organic and corporeal" as she likes to emphasize, highlights the cathartic virtue of songs and tears of these women on the social and individual body.
Exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from 6 February to 10 November 2024
French
48 pages
Éditions Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
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