Bonne arrivée chérie coco
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Jun 21, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
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Amélie Caritey (1998, Côte d’Ivoire), a graduate of the École européenne d’art de Bretagne – Rennes campus, took part in the Residence Workshops offered by Passerelle and Documents d’Artistes Bretagne. Shortly before her residence at the art centre, she spent two months in Côte d’Ivoire, the country she left at the age of three. This second journey to the land of her birth, the first having taken place in 2019, enabled her to bring back a large number of photographs, like so much evidence of the country of her origins. Aware of being on the margins, yet still feeling linked to that nation’s story, the exhibition ‘Bonne arrivée chérie coco’ [Welcome darling coco] is a poetic expression of the artist’s view of a country she as yet knows very little about. The exhibition therefore offers a glimpse of the beginnings of a dual culture under construction, as well as the quest for a bi-national identity.
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Bonne arrivée chérie coco
Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain•Jun 21, 2024 — Sep 14, 2024
Press Release
Amélie Caritey (1998, Côte d’Ivoire), a graduate of the École européenne d’art de Bretagne – Rennes campus, took part in the Residence Workshops offered by Passerelle and Documents d’Artistes Bretagne. Shortly before her residence at the art centre, she spent two months in Côte d’Ivoire, the country she left at the age of three. This second journey to the land of her birth, the first having taken place in 2019, enabled her to bring back a large number of photographs, like so much evidence of the country of her origins. Aware of being on the margins, yet still feeling linked to that nation’s story, the exhibition ‘Bonne arrivée chérie coco’ [Welcome darling coco] is a poetic expression of the artist’s view of a country she as yet knows very little about. The exhibition therefore offers a glimpse of the beginnings of a dual culture under construction, as well as the quest for a bi-national identity.
Defining herself as ‘Afropean’, with…
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