Cécé, Emmelie Prophète. Translated from French by Aidan Rooney. Archipelago Books, 2025. Les villages de Dieu, Mémoire d’encrier, 2020 (Un extrait (PDF) est disponible).
Laferrière loves it.
Category: art
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AG2025_1045258a ou passer du monde visible
Discours de reception de Dany Laferriere, 28 mai 2015.
“C’est Legba qui m’a permis de retracer Hector Bianciotti disparu sous nos yeux ahuris durant l’été 2012. Legba, ce dieu du panthéon vaudou dont on voit la silhouette dans la plupart de mes romans. Sur l’épée que je porte aujourd’hui il est présent par son Vèvè, un dessin qui lui est associé. Ce Legba permet à un mortel de passer du monde visible au monde invisible, puis de revenir au monde visible. C’est donc le dieu des écrivains.”
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orchids and boutonnieres
AG2021_2040444a or Untitled (Orchids and Boutonnieres–Charles Avenue) ii, 2009-2021. 30 x 22 inches. Colored pencil, graphite, ink, gouache, acrylic, enamel paint, collage, and solvent transfer on paper.
Come out, come close.
Why hide? Why deceive?You are me and I am you.
Why get mired in me’s and you’s?We are light upon light—
and the glass light passes through.Why muddy ourselves with a grudge?
Together, we are whole and complete.
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There’s one spirit in countless bodies,
one oil in countless almonds,
one meaning in countless words
uttered by countless tongues.Shatter the jugs. The water is one.
Steeped in union, the heart remembers
a world beyond words.Come out, come close., Jalal al-Din Rumi
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AG2024_1123094a or limitedness
The light gains edges and limbs; folds and opens.
Nobody has limitlessness
a universe of collision and drift
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Adrift, underground, invisible
AG2025flaneur-undergrounda
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man (1953, Signet Double Volume #D1030, cover art by James Avati)
Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison: How a Man ‘Becomes Invisible’, John Edwin Mason, TIME, 2016.
““A Man Becomes Invisible,” which appeared in LIFE on Aug. 25, 1952, Parks interpreted Ellison’s recently published novel, Invisible Man, through images that were by turns surreal and nightmarish.”
Art Institute of Chicago, May 20–Aug 28, 2016.
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Park McArthur. Contact M
The exhibition Park McArthur. Contact M brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. These artworks and the forms they take are guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.
Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.
Curated by Matthias Michalka, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Susanne Titz and Alke Heykes, Museum Abteiberg, Möchengladbach.
March 15, to September 7, 2025.
This audio guide is an artwork. This audio guide is an exhibition. It is titled
01_Contact_M_EN.mp3
Contact M and contains artworks made in the 2010s and 2020s by Park McArthur.
Contact M was recorded in German and English.
Some artworks are only exhibited here, in this audio guide. Some artworks
were on view from March to September, 2025 at the Museum Abteiberg in
Mönchengladbach, Germany and mumok in Vienna, Austria. Reading or listening
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It’s not nothing
It’s not peripheral and it’s not the centre; it’s not everything and it’s not nothing
Orbital, Samantha Harvey
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old habit
Imagination, too, is old habit, assiduously maintained despite consequences.
Grand Tour: Poems, Elisa Gonzalez