Triangle-Astérides – Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?

Exhibition by Shirley Bruno and Josèfa Ntjam

August 29 – September 5, 2019, public opening on Thursday, August 29 from 2 PM to 7 PM
Bastide Projects, 19 rue du Chevalier Rôze, 13002 Marseille

As part of its off-site series of exhibitions, Triangle France - Astérides is pleased to invite you to the opening of Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?
Creating a dialogue between the work of Shirley Bruno and Josèfa Ntjam - two artists in residency in 2019 - this exhibition gathers recent works, some of which especially created for the occasion. Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ? amplifies several narratives and voices, and presents non-Western oriented artworks, giving place to singular and feminist practices.

4_bruno_ntjam_up_in_the_clouds_qui_dit_bleu_exhibition_view_triangle_france_asterides_bastide_projects_marseille_2019__aurelien_ — Shirley Bruno, Josèfa Ntjam, Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?, exhibition view, Triangle France - Astérides, Bastide Projects, Marseille, 2019 © Aurélien Meimaris

3_bruno_ntjam_up_in_the_clouds_qui_dit_bleu_exhibition_view_triangle_france_asterides_bastide_projects_marseille_2019__aurelien_ — Shirley Bruno, Josèfa Ntjam, Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?, exhibition view, Triangle France - Astérides, Bastide Projects, Marseille, 2019 © Aurélien Meimaris

josefa_ntjam_tableau_ciel_face_contre_terre_exhibition_view_triangle_france_asterides_bastide_projects_marseille_2019__aurelien_ — Josèfa Ntjam, Tableau-ciel face contre-Terre, exhibition view, Triangle France - Astérides, Bastide Projects, Marseille, 2019 © Aurélien Meimaris

2_bruno_ntjam_up_in_the_clouds_qui_dit_bleu_exhibition_view_triangle_france_asterides_bastide_projects_marseille_2019__aurelien_ — Shirley Bruno, Josèfa Ntjam, Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?, exhibition view, Triangle France - Astérides, Bastide Projects, Marseille, 2019 © Aurélien Meimaris

1_bruno_ntjam_up_in_the_clouds_qui_dit_bleu_exhibition_view_triangle_france_asterides_bastide_projects_marseille_2019__aurelien_ — Shirley Bruno, Josèfa Ntjam, Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ?, exhibition view, Triangle France - Astérides, Bastide Projects, Marseille, 2019 © Aurélien Meimaris

A public program is scheduled for August 31.

Shirley Bruno, an artist and filmmaker, engages with myths, documented memories, and forms of discourse derived from different systems of both written and oral transmission. Born in 1980 and of Haitian-American descent, she explores the meaning of things as a living phenomenon in the form of fiction. In the work presented here, Tezen, Bruno collaborates with a family, bringing together three generations around a traditional Haitian tale about water and the spirits it conjures. Filmed and released in Haitian Creole (subtitled in French and English), Shirley offers several fictional stories or ambiguous interpretations of certain truths and fears. This sensitive and honest journey (a term dear to the artist) serves as a conduit for infinite conversations between ancestors and current generations.

Josèfa Ntjam, born in 1992 in France, is an artist who works on the reversal of symbols and the creation of new icons through multiple practices such as video, photomontage, writing, and performance. Josèfa uses images as possible forms of life, referencing scenarios that she either scaffolds or rewrites through a personal process. Her work increasingly draws from and reappropriates Afro-Futurist aesthetics and sensibilities. For this exhibition, she presents several works: video, prints on paper, laminated vinyls on the glass window, and a textile print. The scales of these various works, mixing diverted or clipped images and language elements, actively participate in the rewriting and fusion of new principles of reading, assimilating resourced images with the meaning of our discourses. This approach offers other truths and anticipatory strategies.

Exhibition

Up in the clouds, qui dit bleu ? - off-site