PARIS
OCTOBER 2 TO DECEMBER 6, 2024
Currently in residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, artist Sènami Donoumassou takes over the Parisian space of Fondation H for her exhibition Tàn xó [Memory in proses] from October 2 to December 6, 2024.
Sènami Donoumassou is a visual artist born in Benin in 1991, who experiments with the technical and poetic potential of light through photograms, protean installations and drawing, inviting us to reflect on and question notions of identity and memory.
For Sènami, every individual is an archival body, an aspect that leads her to speak of a multiple identity. As she puts it: “We are made of animal DNA, plant DNA and minerals. We are cells, but above all we are traces and memories.” As beings made up of many elements, we are living archives that lend themselves to exchange. Inspired by the poem “On The Pulse of Morning”, written by Maya Angelou in 1993, the artist’s residency questions our identities through otherness and memory. She invites us to take a fresh look at ourselves, questioning our history, our relationship with others and our connection to nature. As social beings, for her, the answers to questions about identity and the tensions it raises in our communities lie in our memories and in our otherness.