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Edition Nr.: 31 | |
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Pélagie Gbaguidi | |
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Good red Goree-dakar. Memory Place May 2006, aus der Serie The Black Code | |
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Farbfotografie (Silbergelatineabzug) auf 1 mm Aluminium Bild1 30 x 45 cm; Bild 2: 45 x 30 cm |
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Pélagie Gbaguidi was born in Dakar in 1965, to Beninese parents. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Liège (Belgium) in 1995. For her the artist is a griot. In the poetic sense, "a griot questions the individual as he or she moves through life by absorbing the words of the ancients and modelling them like a ball of fat that he places in the stomach of each passer-by with the ingredients of the day. In the practical sense, he breaks the commonplace rythm, by inserting subtle incidents, integrating his part of eternity".
In 2004, she was invited by the Center of Contemporary Art at Nantes on an artist in residency program linked to the same year. She discovered there The Black Code by "coincidence". She has also had recent exhibitions at the Museum of Santo Domingo (Oct. 2006) in the first ACP festival and at the Museum of Art and History in Saint Brieux in France (Oct. 2006). In 2006 she was invited to the Biennale in Dakar.
From April to June 2007 she is a fellow of AIR (artist-in-residence) Krems. For the first time she will present the complete series "Le Code Noir", including more than 120 works, in the Factory of the Kunsthalle Krems (21.04.-10.06.2007).
Pélagie Gbaguidi lives and works in Belgium.
"Starting from The Black Code by Louis XIV, I would like to share my reaction and my emotions on the encounter of this 'utmost monstrous book of modern times'. After being absorbed by this book for a period of six months, a series of 120 drawings came to see the daylight. Recently this body of work evolved to frescoes in order to contemplate the signs which came to me like visions. Today it is necessary to look upon history through different angles. My artistic engagement leads me to face the history of my origins, the history of black people through time, to better understand the cultural, social and economical issues of the world which I am part of. If nobody chooses his race, one can truly contribute in writing the present history." Pélagie Gbaguidi
Die Edition kann über Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft oder die Künstlerin bezogen werden: gbaguidi.pelagie@belgacom.net |
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 "<i>Good red Goree-dakar</i>. Memory Place May 2006. Bild 1 - Klick = großes Bild")
 "<i>Good red Goree-dakar</i>. Memory Place May 2006. Bild 2 - Klick = großes Bild")
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