“The Last Place They Thought Of”

This exhibition project brings together the work of the following artists: Lungiswa Gqunta, Soñ Gweha, Gaelle Choisne, Godelive Kasangati, Lou Cocody-Valentino, Michele Magema, Monica de Miranda, Zohra Opoku, MIMI Green and Melissandre Varin.

Entitled The Last Place They Thought of, this exhibition featuring installation, video, photography and drawing, aims to reflect on the possibility of a black conceptualization of geography, in opposition to what intellectual and essayist Kathrin McKittrick calls traditional geography. Drawing on the thinking and creations of these artists, the project seeks to explore and think about notions of territory and space from a black and female perspective. Thus, each of these artists, in their work, draw lines of territory from their position as black women, offering stories rarely told, making the opacity of the margin the starting point for a reconsideration of the concept of geography, also through the idea that everything is in relation. Then, by thinking of the territory in terms of Relation, concepts such as the body, nature, landscape and fugitivity can be explored, and the very thing we call geography disturbed. Indeed, it would be transformed by the total integration of what black lives, and more specifically, the lives of black women, have to contribute to the reading and production of space and place.

©️ Still from As if the World Had No West (2024) by Mónica de Miranda