Lois Arde-Acquah was born in 1992 in Accra, Ghana where she lives and works. Through performance and installation, Arde-Acquah explores the everyday and the notion of repetition as a vector of experimentation for the body and the mind in search of new meanings and new imaginaries.
Abdessamad El Montassir was born in 1989 in Boujdour, Morocco, and lives between Boujdour and Marseille. His practice unfolds at the crossroads of social sciences, scientific research and art. El Montassir sets up reflexive processes that invite us to rethink history and cartographies through collective or fictional narratives and non-material archives.
Jewel Ham was born in 1998 in Charlotte, North Carolina and lives in New York City. She uses painting to propose new ways of telling an intimate and liberated story of today’s African American women, whom she depicts in their daily lives in a mix of painterly realism and dark dreaminess.
Dorra Mahjoubi was born in 1990 in Tunis and lives and works between Paris and Tunis. Sensitive to an ecological approach in art, Mahjoubi uses painting to go in search of buried memories and resurrect in the present the constituent charges of the past that inform both common and intimate stories.
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux was born in 1995 in Guadeloupe and lives in Nanterre, France. Lincy Deloumeaux’s painting is particularly attached to symbolic images from the Afro-Caribbean spiritualities. As a painter of daily life, he details the mythologies, iconography, and religious heritage of the Caribean in search of meaningful connexions with the African history.
Na Chainkua Reindorf was born in 1991 in Ghana and lives in New York. A multidisciplinary artist, her work explores themes of identity, memory, gender, tradition and narration. Her recent research has led her to focus on embroidery and fabric work, a strong heritage of her Ghanaian culture and a way to explore mythological narratives updated to contemporary society.
Claudia Tennant was born in 1988 in Johannesburg and lives in Paris. She seeks to transcribe the complexity of pre-colonial African histories in her work. Using both painting and new digital technologies such as NFTs, Tennant weaves together these histories with the current debates that punctuate post-colonial thinking.