Showcasing Afrodescendant Artistic Brilliance

Bossale World

1st Edition : Lauching, 2021-2022

Curated by the artist and researcher Eddy Firmin, Bossale World explore black artistic expressions inspired by migration and identity. For this first edition, Af-Flux Biennale pays particular attention to the doubly marginalized black art voices of Quebec: women and/or to the LGBTQIA+ communities.

Synonymous of bodies overexploitation, the Bossale, slave born in Africa, is one of the fertilizing figures at the foundation of our globalized world. The bossale, and therefore the black body, signals a nomadic figure that participates to define the first transnational identities of our globalized world. For the 1st edition of AF-FLUX, 24 artists address significant issues: As bossale descendants, how do we articulate the world? What kind of decolonial dialogue arises from the encounter of artists from here and elsewhere? Moreover, how do these artists invest the contemporary art field ? What are their roots?

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One Thousand Path of Humanity

2nd Edition : Black Transmission, 2023-2024

Curated by the artist and writer Olivier Marboeuf, this second edition engage a dialogue on the intersections of heritage, history, and transmission.

In opposition to the Western diktat of public overexposure as the only desirable form of representation, to the empire of transparency, of the raw light of Reason that would illuminate the obscure worlds of here and elsewhere, black transmission opposes an aesthetics of opacity and an ecology of the shadow. To transmit through enigma and initiation is also to give full importance to all the powers of the living, human and non-human, visible and invisible, which require special attention and care. Added to this sensitivity for all the voices of the living is an art of cunning, an art of slipping under the ear of those who want to know everything and accumulate everything. Faced with the voracity of cultural extractivism, black transmission is also a skilful practice of scrambling, of saturation, of a word that serves not to say, to fill the space with a noise that only certain ears will be able to decode.

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