Screening and Q&A with Hamedine Kane
Conversation: Hamedine Kane, Oulimata Gueye, Jennifer Bajorek
Event date: June 05th, 2023 at 7 PM
Monday June 5 from 6pm to 9pm, at l’ Atlas - Paris, Screening of The Blue House (2020) by Hamedine Kane, followed by a convesation with Oulimata Gueye and Jennifer Bajorek.
Through the intimate portrait of Alpha, a childhood friend of the director, La Maison Bleue questions the places of relegation, detention, uninhabitable that are the European migrant camps, here the Jungle of Calais. Exceptional territories where attempts at resistance nevertheless arise, such as the one set up by Alpha in his habitat-workshop project, a place where a poetics of relationship is constructed that defies the desolation of bodies and the violence of politics.
The Blue House, whether it is Alpha’s plastic work or Hamedine’s filmic work, constitutes a space within which the will to oppose assignments, designations and relegations is expressed. It is a journey between two paths, between two worlds. It is a journey to confront. It is a journey to put an end to flight.
“ To flee is to be on the margins and to stick to them “
Participants
Hamedine Kane
The Senegalese-Mauritanian artist and director Hamedine Kane (born in 1983 in Mauritania) lives and works between Brussels, Paris and Dakar. Trained as a librarian in Nouakchott, he made his first trip to Europe in 2004 after obtaining a scholarship as a librarian in Paris. Shortly after, he decided to base himself in Brussels where he developed his practice that integrates literature, art and cinema.
Hamedine Kane has participated in numerous festivals, biennials and exhibitions in Senegal, France and internationally such as Les Rencontres de Bamako ; Documenta 14; Dakar Biennale; Lubumbashi Biennale…
Oulimata Gueye
Senegalese and French critic and curator. His curatorial approach is based on research at the intersection of digital science and technology, contemporary art and popular culture. She has participated in numerous international projects on electronic and performance cultures. His projects Africa sf, Digital Imaginaries, Non-Aligned Utopies, Afrocyberfeminisms, explore the intersections of fiction, science, technology and knowledge in relation to the place of Africa and its diasporas in a critical analysis perspective. She organized the exhibition UFA - University of future Africans in Lieu Unique, Nantes. She directs the graduate program in art at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon and gives master’s courses.
Jennifer Bajorek
Jennifer Bajorek is a teacher and researcher in the fields of cultural and visual studies, contemporary art history and the history of photography, particularly in Africa. His current research focuses on representations of migration in contemporary France. She is also engaged in collaborative research and activism in the cultural sector, with a focus on restorative practices and non-state approaches in post-colonial spaces. She is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College, USA, and Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.