This Is What Compels Ce To Compel Them is a group show that invites us to explore what we can draw from our inherited experiences of dislocation and displacement to form affinities. The selected works demonstrate the urgency we feel towards weaving community ties that resist the motto of death, the one that fuels, above all, our fixations and aspirations to ownership.

What is it that prompts us to cultivate an aesthetic that focuses on the still-existing rhizomes of uprootedness as fertile ground for our collective permutations?

Esther Calixte-Bea, Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux, Eddy F., Stanley Février, G L O W Z I, Anick Jasmin, Mallory Lowe, Schaël Marcéus, Oski, Stefani Saintonge and Michaëlle Sergile share a critical curiosity: conversing and transforming, rather than regurgitating, narratives of identity. Their visual formulations offer convergences of fantasies and realities that push us to concretize evolving visions. Artists bring new clarity to the delicate threads of past, present and future that we weave together to manifest ourselves in sovereign fashion.

Curator : Joséphine Denis

Photo : Mallory Lowe