“City Prince/sses”
PALAIS magazine is devoting its issue #29 to the exhibition City Prince/sses, presented at Palais de Tokyo from June 21 to September 8, 2019. Artists, fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians, DJs, tattoo artists, experimenters: about 50 creators coming from Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City and Tehran have invested Palais de Tokyo which has become an imaginary city, multiple and complex, open, messy, thundering and creative.
Featured in issue 29
Texts by: Fabien Danesi and Hugo Vitrani, curators of the exhibition; Tayeba Begum Lipi about Britto Arts Trust, a platform for experimentation and international exchange for visual arts based in Dhaka; Seni Saraki about Nigerian pop music; Ashkan Sepahvand on Iranian artist Mamali Shafahi; Sophie Bouillon about Aderemi Adegbite, founder of an artistic space in Iwaya district in Lagos; Kit Hammonds about the work of Mexican artist Manuel Solano; Caliph8 on a history of alternative musical scenes of Manila; Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh about Lagos soundscapes; artist-photographer Newsha Tavakolian on a history of documentary photography in Iran.
Interviews: Fernando Palma Rodríguez by Dorothée Dupuis, about his commitment to the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage of the Nahuas of Mexico; a conversation between Ndidi Dike and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, two women artists living and working in Lagos; a discussion between Yoshua Okón, artist and founder of the artist-run space La Panadería in Mexico City in the 1990s, and the members of Biquini Wax EPS, a collective of artists, writers, historians and curators, by Daniel Montero; contemporary Filipino filmmakers Timmy Harn and Raya Martin in conversation; the artist collective Tercerunquinto by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, about political propaganda paintings in Mexico.
Visual contributions by: Merhaneh Atashi, Leeroy New, Afshika Rahman and Saturnino Basilla (Allan Balisi & Dina Gadia).
As well as a large selection of images of works by the creators presented in the exhibition.
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