Exhibition - "Le Code Noir : Atelier - 2023 - 2024 Roma" at The Recovery Plan

"Le Code Noir : Atelier - 2023 - 2024 Roma", installation view at The Recovery Plan (SRISA), 2024. Credit: BHMF2024. Courtesy Selebe Yoon, Dakar.

"Le Code Noir : Atelier - 2023 - 2024 Roma" is Hamedine Kane’s personal exhibition at The Recovery Plan hosted by Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) as part of the Black History Month Florence 2024.

As a fellow at Villa Medici in 2023-2024, Hamedine Kane is developing a research project about the history of writing and publication by black authors in relation to Pan-Africanism. Three great black American writers are at the core of this oeuvre : Richard Wright, Chester Himes and James Baldwin, all three exiled from Paris in the second half of the 1940s. Following what the anthropologist Anna Tsing calls "the art of observation", this composition of witnesses will form the basis of a work in which Hamedine Kane will enhance the narratives of the so-called protest novel specific to the three writers, attentive to the experience of violence lived and suffered and the refusal of designation that are expressed in their works, and highlights his current research.