Pélagie Gbaguidi: Journey
This video will take you on a poetic journey into the mind and thoughts of Pélagie. History, spiritualism, myths, stereotypes and nature are just a few topics highlighted.
Gbaguidi calls herself a contemporary ‘griot’, someone who functions as an intermediary between the individual memory and the ancestral past. Her work is an anthology of the signs and traces of trauma, and is centred on colonial and postcolonial history. She draws attention to the way in which legacies of oppression are circumvented in official histories – and thus preserved. She aims to reveal the process of forgetting by recontextualizing archives and histories. Her works are not direct representations of a traumatic past, but transmit embodied knowledge. Her paintings and drawings have a performative character and she often uses parts of her body to apply paint or pigment to the canvas. The images that Gbaguidi creates, through painting, drawing, performance or installation, attempt to break out of binary thinking, archetypes and simplifications.
Represented by Zeno X Gallery