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Binidittu, the fourth book of my long-term project Cham, is out! Published by L’ARTIERE, design by Ramon Pez.Included in the book and along with my text, there are beautiful essays by Igiaba SCEGO, Doudou DIÈNE and Alagie JINCANG, addressing the multiple significance of Benedict today in the context of Mediterranean migration and contemporary forms of (in)visibillity of African diaspora. Passages from writer Ralph ELLISON's book The Invisible Man, a seminal work of African-American literature, feature throughout Binidittu along with interviews and archives. The book was made in Italy by L’Artiere with the support of Fond de Dotation Buchet-Ponsoye, Prix Elysée and Cnap.

You can order the book at your local bookstore or online at the link here below

On Thursday, May 27, CAMERA - Centro Nazionale di Fotografia, opens with a new exhibition, Nicola Lo Calzo. Binidittu, a previously unseen project by the Italian artist .Through the history and cultural heritage of Saint Benedict the Moor, Lo Calzo examines the relationship between colonialism legacy and contemporary cultural identity.

BINIDITTU features in Libération, May 22 Weekend issue : Benoît Le More Vivant. Book review by Clémentine Mercier.

The series Binidittu is presented at Chiesa Madre as part of Images Gibellina Festival. Chiesa Madre, Gibellina Nuova. From July 30 to August 29, 2021. Thanks to curators Arianna Catania, Stefano Stoll and Rica Cerbarano for their commitment.

Mythologies of Resistances, Memories of slavery in the Caribbean was shown at Maison de l'agglomeration as part of Photo Festival Baie de Saint-Brieuc from Juin 15 to August 29, 2021. The exhibition presented a selection of images from the series Ayiti (2013-2019) and the series Mas (2012-2020). With a text by art curator Jeanne Mercier. All my thanks to art director Ferit Duzyol and all the team.

The video installation La barque ouverte is displayed for the first time as part of La Sagesse des lianes, a group exhibition by curator Dénétem Touam Bona at CIAP Vassivière. This video is a collaboration with writer and director Hugo Rousselin. Made from an unpublished film archive produced as part of the CHAM project, La barque ouverte is a reference to a text spoken by Edouard Glissant, the preface to the Poetics of Relation in which Glissant thus sums up the experience of abyss of slavery of Africans and rebirth through resistance.

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La Sagesse des Lianes
Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de Vassivière
From September 19 to January 9, 2022