Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde et Toni Morrison
septembersept 21 - december – dec 21
© Vue de l’exposition collective Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison. Diaporamas d’une sélection d’archives d’Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison. Paula Valero Comin, Herbier Résistant Rosa Luxembourg/Correspondances, install ©
© Vue de l’exposition collective Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison. Photo : Marc Domage/Crédac, 2024 ©
© Vue de l’exposition collective Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison. Diaporamas d’une sélection d’archives d’Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison. Photo : Marc Domage/Crédac, 2024 ©
Curator Claire Le Restif director of Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac and Elvan Zabunyan, art historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
With artworks by Annouchka de Andrade and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Krista Franklin, Kapwani Kiwanga, Paul Maheke, Sarah Maldoror, Paula Valero Comín (in progress).
Archives held and consulted at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, at The Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College in Atlanta and at the Princeton University Library in the United States.
In partnership with secondary schools Romain Rolland (Ivry-sur-Seine) and Danielle Casanova (Vitry-sur-Seine).
Production Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac
Coproduction Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the United States Embassy in France
The Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac and The Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this exhibition.
Visit in French Sign Language
Saturday 23 November 2024 from 4pm to 6pm, in the presence of Elvan Zabunyan and Claire Le Restif, curators of the exhibition.
Free with reservation from Émilie Roffi
e.roffi@festival-automne.com
With the support of
In November 2023, Angela Davis was guest at the Festival d'Automne for a conversation with Elvan Zabunyan about the meeting point between the arts and activism. A year later, the Crédac contemporary art centre now presents a group exhibition bringing together archive material by Angela Davis, Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison.
The starting point for Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, et Toni Morrison is the research carried out in early 2024 by art historian Elvan Zabunyan into the respective archives of these three major figures. For a long period of time, their political, philosophical, poetic and literary writings have accompanied her research on contemporary African-American art. Education, the sharing of experiences, the need for political pedagogy, and the promotion of hope and freedom in order to counter racism, sexism and social and cultural deprivation, are at the heart of these writings. Making use of this unique material, students from two secondary schools (in Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine) will be participating in writing and creative workshops organized by the Crédac. In the exhibition, the works produced by the students themselves dialogue with a selection of archives and works of art chosen by Claire Le Restif, director of the Crédac, and Elvan Zabunyan.