CURRENT EXHIBITION

Samuel Fosso: African Spirits

July 8, 2008—September 14, 2008

From July 8th to September 14th, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie will present a selection of 40 Samuel Fosso’s Autoportraits (from 1974 to 2008), with the title « Vous serez beau, chic, délicat et facile à reconnaître ».

Samuel Fosso decided to introduce his new Autoportraits series «AFRICAN SPIRITS », in the context of this exhibition as a world premiere.

«AFRICAN SPIRITS », a series of 14 Autoportraits, concretize a concept M.Fosso bear for years and boosted when he discovered the communication visuals of the 1st African Pavilion at 2007 Venice Bienial, presented by the Sindika Dokolo Collection : reinterpreting photographic icons of great leaders from the African Independencies, Civil Rights Movement in the US or Black cultural monuments. So in M.Fosso’s Pantheon are Mandela, Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Miles Davis, Martin Luther King, Seydou Keita, Angela Davis, N’Krumah,, Lumumba, Tommie Smith, Haïlé Sélassié, Malcolm X, or Muhammad Ali.

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