Paper short abstract:

How can a young African artist get his or her work known? How can his or her work get attention when he or she is constantly under way and is nourished by « other places »? « « for a man who cries out is not a dancing bear » » Aimé Césaire

Paper long abstract:

I invite you to join me in a voyage and to participate in a debate. The debate is open-ended, for I have no definitive answer. I am a student at an art school. Due to my parents' profession, I traveled widely at a young age. As I passed from one country to another, what made the biggest impression on me was art. Art is shared by all the civilizations I encountered; it is manifold yet brings humanity together. Due to my itinerant education and academic training, I have come into contact with the world of contemporary art and the issues surrounding it. I quickly realized that the question of exhibition is as important as that of production. I also realized that unaccompanied, a work of art cannot be shown and thus cannot exist. My work focuses on the manner in which we are led to perceive and to receive things - above all, images. An important place in my research is occupied by the materiality of images and the different layers of which they are composed. I enjoy playing with the tangibility of the creative supports of photography. Following an ensemble of works focusing on the notions of travel, of movement and of vagrancy which led me to cross all of West Africa, I was able to begin to understand - thanks to the various exhibitions visited - how an « African » work of art can be exhibited. I began to understand how it can be chosen.