Initiated and supported by the Pernod Ricard Foundation, Poésie Plate-forme is a series of meetings conceived and moderated by author Jérôme Mauche. The novelist Gauz will dialogue with the African-American artist/collector Cheryl Ann Bolden.
Both of them, in their life and creative paths, conceive of the diaspora as a place of experimentation of imaginations, destinies and languages. Their works testify to another geography of bodies, contexts and gestures through fiction and interdisciplinarity, thanks to the use of the archive, the object, the document. The novels of Gauz by their stylistic richness as well as the subtlety of their composition participate in the new elaboration of representations of Africa and the diasporas in their collective and personal, imaginary, political and historical anchorage.
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Cheryl Ann Bolden is a native of New Jersey, USA. She is an artist, collector, archivist and educator. She moved to Paris in 1998 and founded the Precious Cargo Museum, a traveling structure and educational project dedicated to the history and culture of the African diaspora. With Cheryl Ann Bolden, the Precious Cargo Museum diversifies into an international traveling art and education program. Using original documents, she speaks in different communities about the legacy of colonial memory, civil rights and the place of women in society. A descendant of six generations of African-Americans, she created and directed her own gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her artwork is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to repairing colonial history through various therapeutic methods leading her from alternative medicine to an artistic practice.
Born in 1971 in Abidjan, Gauz turned down a scholarship to study veterinary medicine at Maisons-Alfort at age 18. As far as everyone is concerned, wizards have put a spell on him. After graduating with a degree in biochemistry, he became a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and director of a satirical economic newspaper in Côte d’Ivoire. His first novel, Debout-Payé, was a huge success and was voted Best French First Novel of 2014 by Lire magazine. As for Camarade Papa, it received the Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique noire as well as the Virilo, Ivoire and Ethiophile awards. Gauz also wrote the script for a film about the immigration of young Ivorians, Après l’océan…
Jérôme Mauche is a writer and poet. He has published about fifteen books or projects from 2002 to 2015. He is a professor at the Villa Arson, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, in Nice. He recently organized the exhibitions Synonymie ambiante at the FRAC PACA and Suffis-toi d’un buis at the Ménagerie de Verre, Paris.
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