Exhibition

Dans ce lieu de déséquilibre occulte

15 Jan 2023 – 2 Apr 2023

Regular hours

Sunday
14:00 – 19:00
Wednesday
14:00 – 18:00
Thursday
14:00 – 18:00
Friday
14:00 – 18:00
Saturday
14:00 – 19:00

Free admission

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Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s recent sculptures, videos and installations draw on the work of the Guyanese writer Wilson Harris (1921-2018).

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Like Harris, who was born in what was then British Guiana where he worked as a surveyor and hydrologist for 17 years, Abonnenc is a meticulous observer of the former French colony in the Guyanas, now part of France. His pieces, infused with Harris’s poetic and cosmogonical outlook, occupy the whole of the Crédac’s space, turning it into a kind of open book.
"In this Zone of occult instability", our eyes and ears must first learn to better see and hear before they can make out the traces and scars that have indelibly marked the land, trees and rivers, whose voices were captured for this exhibition by the sound artist Thomas Tilly.

The title of Abonnenc’s show at the Crédac, "Dans ce lieu de déséquilibre occulte" ("In this zone of occult instability"), is taken from "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961) by the psychiatrist and essayist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), a founder of anti-colonialist thought. The exhibition was produced in partnership with La Loge in Brussels, as a follow-up to Abonnenc’s exhibition "In the Womb of the Glass Ship" held at that art centre (8 September-4 December 2022).
These two shows have featured Abonnenc’s recent works, sometimes made in collaboration with other artists, such as the sound piece composed with Thomas Tilly and a film with the choreographer and performer Betty Tchomanga. As always with Abonnenc, they combine autobiographical elements and real and fictional Caribbean narratives. For the last several years his practice has drawn on the writings of Wilson Harris and his ecological and decolonial vision. Abonnec’s Crédac show can be read as both a landscape and an open book. It is a living archive of a history stamped by the trauma of conquest.
For In the Womb of the Glass Ship, Abonnenc created a musical and redeeming journey that begins in the hold of a slave vessel and gradually progresses toward light. In the iteration at the Crédac, visitors also experience the sounds and voices of the Amazon rainforest and discover a rare text by the Guyanese writer Harris, whose conception of the instability of matter was central to his world outlook.
Thus visitors enter the same sound horizon as the artworks that temporarily occupy this
space, and experience a multisensorial narrative that is simultaneously personal and
historical, and whose political implications are expressed visually and poetically.

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Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

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