Flavio Delice, Samuel Gelas, Shamika Germain: Noutoupatou

Noutoupatou, Mondes caribéens en mouvement organised by A plus A Gallery and School for Curatorial Studies Venice in collaboration with Campus Caraïbéen des Arts and the support of Institut français. Curated by Paola Lavra.

Private view: November 18, 6pm
A plus A Gallery, Venice, San Marco 3073

A plus A gallery and the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts are pleased to announce Noutoupatou, Mondes caribéens en mouvement. The exhibition, supported by the Institut français, coincides with the closing of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

Noutoupatou, is a word, a sound, an invitation to look closely at the works of three young artists from the Caribbean art scene, from the islands of Haïti, Guadeloupe and Saint Martin, graduates of the Campus Caribéen des Arts of Fort-de-France in Martinique: Flavio Delice, Samuel Gelas, Shamika Germain

The exhibition is curated by Paola Lavra, anthropologist and lecturer at the Campus des Arts and former student at the School for Curatorial Studies Venice, in collaboration with May Clementé, director of the Galerie École of the CCA.

The project envisages a residency period for the artists in Venice, a master class proposed by Julien Creuzet and a series of initiatives aimed at creating a moment of exchange and encounter between the three artists and the city of Venice, both islands belonging to a vast archipelago that carries within itself an intricate network of relationships and connections to the world. The residency period will culminate with the opening of the exhibition in which the visitor will have the opportunity to confront that historical, sociological and cultural imprint that has profoundly marked the space and body, the plural and contradictory identity of a colonial society that constantly questions its origins, its affiliation and territorial status as a French island in the broader and more complex sphere of the Caribbean archipelago, its becoming in the globalised space of the Americas. Today, the progressive deconstruction of the paradigm of Western modernity leaves room for new and singular paradigms of thought and action brought and translated by the specific language of contemporary art, inspired by the Glissantian poetics of relationship and Tout monde.

For the occasion, Julien Creuzet, who is representing France at the 60th Venice Biennale, will host a masterclass tracing the various stages of his career, which began in Martinique itself. The masterclass is organized by the Institut français, in collaboration with the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts.

It is aimed at students of the Fine Arts Academies of Martinique and Caen, as well as students from the Lycée d’arts appliqués Victor Anicet in Saint Pierre. This event is made possible thanks to the support of the Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique.

Founded on the égida of Aimé Cesaire in 1984, the current Campus Caraïbéen des Arts is a Higher School of Art sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, integrated into the higher education system of French art schools. The only French-speaking centre for the teaching of the visual arts in the Caribbean and Central America, the higher institute puts into perspective the European system with which it is endowed in order to fit into the broader territoriality assigned to it by history and the status of French overseas territory.

Press kit here.