Miu Miu présente Geste de consolation, un projet imaginé par Alice Diop | Gesture of consolation, a project by Alice Diop

Miu Miu présente Geste de consolation, un projet imaginé par Alice Diop

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« Geste de Consolation » se concentre sur une seule question qui traverse l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Diop en tant que cinéaste, la déployant ici sous la forme d’une scénographie multimédia. « Je souhaite que l’exposition que j’organise en tant que commissaire soit centrée sur les actes de consolation conçus par des artistes femmes noires, chacune dans sa propre discipline, afin de réparer les torts causés par le regard fétichisant auquel des siècles d’histoire de l’art nous ont confinées », déclare Diop. « Geste de Consolation » devient un chœur qui célèbre la créativité noire et s’interroge sur la manière dont le regard s’est constitué à partir des représentations mêmes qu’il affronte, images qui continuent de hanter et de façonner le moment présent.

"Geste de Consolation" focuses on the one question that traverses Alice Diop’s corpus of work as a filmmaker; deploying it here in the form of a multimedia scenography. "My desire is that the exhibition that I curate centers on the acts of consolation conceived by black women artists, each in their own discipline, in order to repair the wrongs caused by the fetishizing gaze in which centuries of art history have confined us," declares Alice Diop. "Geste de Consolation" becomes a choir that celebrates black creativity and questions the manner in which the gaze was constructed from the very representations that confronts it, images that continue to manifest itself and hence, shape the present moment.

Le Monde: At the Palais d'Iéna, filmmaker Alice Diop showcases the black women artists who have "strengthened" her

From October 21 to 25, the filmmaker Alice Diop will be entrusted with the keys to the Palais d'Iéna, an invitation by Miuccia Prada [head designer of Prada and founder of Miu Miu], as part of the Art Basel Paris contemporary art fair. Intermingling the intimate and the collective, her exhibition is dedicated in large part of black women, such as the sculptor Simone Leigh.

"I turned to the women who have inspired me over the past three years, a pivotal period for me. I had constructed my cinema on the desire to make a case for my formative years growing up as a black woman in France. I needed to be heard, to render justice to this violence, this anger. However, now, I no longer need to convince. I have been strengthened by the works of these women. To showcase them is for me a gesture that is at the same time very personal and very collective."

Source, translated from French: https://www.lemonde.fr/m-styles/article/2026/10/18/au-palais-d-iena-la-cineaste-alice-diop-met-en-lumiere-les-artistes-noires-qui-l-ont-fortifiee_6797043_4497319.html