Until January 5, the Fondation Cartier-Bresson is exhibiting Remember to Forget by Mame-Diarra Niang. The curator of the exhibition Clément Chéroux, Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, presents it as follows:
The black body is at the heart of the new series by French artist Mame-Diarra Niang. She does not wish to define it or tell about it. On the contrary, she wants to free it from the representations imposed by centuries of Western narration. She therefore seeks to abstract it, through what she calls non-portrait forms. Each of the images in this tetralogy can be seen as an evocation of the artist herself. “What makes me me? “, she asks herself. Her personality cannot be reduced to a fixed, assigned or subjugated identity. It is made up of experiences, memories and forgetfulness. It is therefore constantly evolving. It is this flow, this territory in permanent reconfiguration, that she explores. Through this project, begun during a period of long confinement, by rephotographing screens, Mame-Diarra Niang willingly plays with these defects characterized by traditional photography such as blur, distortions or halos. Like a psychologist using the inkblots of a Rorschach test to reveal the unconscious, she uses these disjunctions of contemporary imagery as so many projection surfaces. “I am this blur,” she said.
Clément Chéroux
Mame-Diarra Niang : Remember to Forget
Until January 5, 2025
Fondation Cartier-Bresson
79 Rue des Archives
75003 Paris
+33 1 40 61 50 50
Tuesday – Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
www.henricartierbresson.org
