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Nouméa, New Caledonia

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Yîmbèè: secret/hide

Nouméa From November 14, 2024 to November 28, 2024

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Secrets from here

To what extent can we reveal a secret? Is collateral damage predictable when we keep a secret? Isn't sharing a secret the way to create unbreakable bonds? The ethnic diversity of New Caledonia, as well as its history, give it a plethora of secrets, the particularity of which is to figure largely in the file of the "unspoken". We then leave the occult for denial. The latest obscurantism, recently brought to light, underlines the minimization of the many unions between ex-convicts and Kanak women. As political opposition stigmatized more, the descendants of settlers were treated as convicts, and even if the trend has reversed, this painful period will encourage these children of immigrants to hide their ancestors of Kanak origin. Moreover, the only truth that remains is that the sole majority of this country, if it were to constitute itself into a single political party, would come from the mixed race. It is therefore within this multicultural wealth, where people share their secrets, factors of social cohesion and identity, that this exhibition navigates. Through fictions and uchronies, the artist will engage the pictorial universe corresponding to the revelations brought by the land that carries it, sparingly of course, because what is less secret for some communities is totally so for others. Certain burdens posed as inheritance will also be buried even more deeply in the general interest. It will then be appropriate to maintain the mystery, the artistic practice of the painter will comply with it: the transparent washes suggesting graphics in the undercoat, and the appearance of forms to be interpreted, on the edge of abstraction, will speak for themselves.
"When you are very small, you cannot keep your secret. It’s a stage of growth, like becoming clean. If you think about it, it may be related.” Amélie Nothomb

*Yîmbèè: “secret/hide” in cèmuhî, a Kanak language from the East Coast.

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15 rue Henri Gaspard, Rés le Nautile, Apt 76
98800, Nouméa
Nouméa
New Caledonia

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