My body ≠ Ta chose (My body isn’t your object)

My body ≠ Ta chose (My Body ≠ Your Object) is a project in which the Other is intentionally reified as a strategy to survive exoticization. Evoking the spirit of Josephine Baker, the exhibition does not intend to denounce or to victimize. On the contrary, it aims to highlight dynamics in which one’s own corporality becomes a means of controlling others. My body ≠ Ta chose reveals a kind of «voluntary servitude» in which the freak is a trap at the service of others. It brings to light works in which the artist ridicules the tropical savage architype through this ≠ symbol that represents both equality and non-belonging.

Curator: Rolando J. Carmona

Artists: Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca (Brazil) Jean-François Boclé (Martinique, France), the duo Christto and Andrew (Puerto Rico & South Africa), Juan Downey (Chile) Paulo Nazareth (Brazil), Desi Santiago (Puerto Rico, USA) and Fannie Sosa (Argentina & Brazil).

Maëlle Galerie
1-3 rue Ramponeau
Paris

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