The Palais de Tokyo presents its new season, Six Continents ou plus

Contemporary art makes a comeback at the Palais de Tokyo! After an eventful year, the museum is offering a brand-new artistic season, entitled Six Continents ou plus, running from November 26, 2021 to March 20, 2022. A series of exhibitions revolving around a main theme, Ubuntu, a lucid dream, which calls"for revolt, but also for wisdom and reparation". Five exhibitions in all, showcasing artists"who cross bordersand give back their power to act toideas, forms and cultures thatare more itinerant than rooted".

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On the program for this new season at the Palais de Tokyo:

• Ubuntu, a lucid dream

The exhibition invites visitors to exploreUbuntu, a "space still unoccupied byour imaginations and knowledge". Complex to translate into Western languages, themeaning of this term, derived from the Bantu languages of southern Africa, combines notions of humanity, the collective and hospitality, and can be interpreted as "I am because we are".

This retrospective also aims to bear witness to "these dynamics of recomposing the world populated by lucid dreams" and brings together works by some twenty artists, some of whom resonate with the Ubuntu philosophy and "seek to approach this thought of action and relationship as a resource, a space for invention, fiction or mediation of the real world".

• Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental

Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinentale is the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020) . It is an opportunity to discover the cinematographic, theatrical, poetic and political work of a filmmaker whose prolific output alternates between fiction and documentary, in the service of a revolutionary and decolonial cinema , resolutely anti-racist and irreverent .

Conceived as "a film landscape superimposing histories and geographies", the exhibition explores the cities through which the artist passed, and reflects the dialogues she had with numerous intellectual, artistic and political figures, including Mario Pinto de Andrade, Aimé Césaire, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Chris Marker and William Klein. These dialogues resonate with new conversations Sarah Maldoror has created with contemporary artists such as Kapwani Kiwanga, Maya Mihindou, Chloé Quenum and Anna Tje. This retrospective also explores "the difficulties she encountered in getting her work recognized, financed and distributed".

• New Power - Maxwell Alexandre

Born in Rocinha, one of Rio de Janeiro 'slargest favélas , Maxwell Alexandre sees painting as a "prophetic practice" . In his immense political compositions, the heritage of classical European painting meets that of muralism or street painting : references that he remixes to the jerky rhythms of Hip Hop and that resonate with current events in a Brazil under tension. An exhibition that also targets"the contemporary art world, its market, its cubes and other 'white places', like so many territories of power where racial and social struggles become sclerotic".

• Aïda Bruyère

Aïda Bruyère, a young French artist who grew up in Mali, bases her practice on images. Derived from a variety of sources, transformed then multiplied and presented on the scale of a wall or a book, images have until now been the artist 's preferred tool for tackling issues linked to the body and its constructions in social space . Aïda Bruyère continues this research at Tokyo'sPalais with an installation inspired by a Bamako nightclub .

• Keep the Fire Burning - Jay Ramier

To markthe10th anniversary of the Lasco Project, Tokyo'sPalais invites Jay Ramier, an artist considered to be one of the pioneers of French hip-hop, a creolized and postcolonial movement .

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