Exhibition Scheherazade la nuit, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2022
nuit, installation with soil, burnt wood, wood sculpture, video the length of my gaze at night
Within the group exhibition Shéhérazade, la nuit, her installation nuit unfolds on the ground, tracing the traditional weaving pattern of the nasse, a trap system that the artist associates with the narrative of the territory, the voice of water, of the ocean as a cemetery an echo also present in the video the length of my gaze at night (2022).
Suspended at varying heights beyond the human scale, sculp- tures with cutouts evoking both organic forms and elements
of traditional Guadeloupean architecture have been burned, bearing witness to the violence of their gradual disappearance. Playing with different intensities and rhythms through shifting shadows and organic sculptures in wood and ceramic, the artist creates subtle events within the space.
With minimal means and through a perceptual rather than representational approach, Minia Biabiany transforms the tensions of her lived environment into an imaginary, poetic, and political insular landscape. Through interwoven narrative, sensory, and material threads, she examines the traces of the slave system and its ongoing colonial condition on bodies and territories.
© Aurélien Mole