Cedric Mizero
UMUNYANA
octoberoct 23 – 25
© Cedric Mizero ©
© Cedric Mizero ©
© Cedric Mizero ©
Creation by Cedric Mizero. Distribution (in progress).
Production Karame Productions
Coproduction Festival d'Automne à Paris
With support from Institut Français
The Festival d'Automne à Paris is co-producer of this performative installation and co-presents it with the Ménagerie de verre.
With the support of
People say that Girinshuti wanders around under the influence of a strange mental illness, confronted by cows, central figures of the Rwandan landscape. Cedric Mizero brings us a performative installation which interweaves fictional narrative with childhood reminiscences.
Born in western Rwanda in the early 1990s, Cedric Mizero is a self-taught artist whose composite practice blends visual arts, fashion, and performance art. UMUNYANA evokes a world in suspension, traversed by a character suffering from a memory disorder, which leads him into a universe where the Inka, the cow, is mourned, sung and embodied. A much-venerated goddess who is now unheard of, she reappears in the form of a luminous spectrum that bodies try to resurrect through gesture, breath and song. Influenced by his research on the slaughter of animals on market days, a practice that contrasts sharply with Rwanda's cultural respect for cows, Cedric Mizero’s installation is built in the form of a fragmented vision. Images emerge from one room to the next, taking us on an exploration of livestock history and culture in Rwanda. UMUNYANA sings of the loss of a rural world which is fading away, and celebrates the invisible links that unite humans to animals, to the past and to the land.
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