I Telman nwè ki i blé (Si noir que cela en devient bleu)

Palais de Tokyo, 13 Avenue du Président Wilson

Valérie John proposes an exploration of indigo blue as material, memory and gesture. From Martinique to West Africa, her work weaves identities and narratives in assemblages seen as sensitive traces of the past The monographic exhibition “I telman nwè ki i blé (Si noir que cela en devient bleu) welcomes Valérie John’s creation from the 1990s onward and her return to Martinique, where she chooses to establish her “atelier-oeuvre”. This act is then a commitment to “do an artwork” in immersion within her milieu and in contact with the translocal memory of the place, in…