Kemi Bassene takes up residence at the Musée du Quai Branly! As part of the Africa2020 Season, the museum welcomes the Senegalese artist for a large-scale installation entitled The African Shed Laboratory, from May 19 to September 26, 2021. A curator, art critic and photographer invited to create a work based on the photographic and audiovisual archives held at the museum.
Through this installation, Kemi Bassene seeks to demonstrate that museum archives"are not just a corpus of heritage testimonies, but the possible cogs in a dynamic of contemporary artistic re-creation". And a question at the heart of this work: that of transmission, symbolized here by the set of photographs presented, showing"the learning of the French language, at various times and in various regions of Africa", but also in Asia. An artist who also seizes the opportunity to apply"an artistic vision to already existing works, reinterpreting them through new, more contemporary productions and making them known to new audiences".
The photographic works also dialogue with various sound elements, both documentary and musical, all drawn from the collections of the Musée du Quai Branly, and installed on the most curious of supports - school desks! These were designed by Malian students of architect-designer Cheikh Diallo, at Kemi Bassene' s request, enabling him"to invoke a particular aesthetic to his installation", which also conveys the idea of "transmission".
Dates and Opening Time
From May 19, 2021 to September 26, 2021
Location
Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac
37 Quai Jacques Chirac
75007 Paris 7
Access
Metro line 9 "Iéna" station RER C "Pont de l'Alma" station
Prices
Tarif réduit (Plateau des collections): €7
Plein tarif (Plateau des collections): €10
Official website
www.quaibranly.fr
More information
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
