ANTANANARIVO
JANUARY 01 - APRIL 27, 2022
For this project, Myriam Omar Awadi has been creating a body of work focused on orality and memories around the Indian Ocean. Using various media (video, sculpture, photography, installation), she explores the female oral traditions of Madagascar in the style of Comorian Debe, an ancient ceremony conducted exclusively by women. By approaching archives as a living material, Myriam Omar Awadi establishes a dialogue between voices from the past (archive documents), present (discussions and collaborations with groups of young women) and future (aspirations developed by this matrimonial heritage) in order to foster transmission of personal and collective stories.
MYRIAM OMAR AWADI'S BIOGRAPHY
Born in Paris in 1983, Myriam Omar Awadi is a French-Comorian artist who lives and works in Reunion.
Since 2016, she has belonged to the La Box/Run space collective, where she founded the Paroles Paroles lab in collaboration with artist Yohann Quëland from Saint-Pern. Myriam Omar Awadi has had exhibitions at the Comoros Contemporary Art Festival (Moroni, 2012), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2016 and 2021) and African Biennale of Photography (Bamako, 2019). She will take part in the 5th International Casablanca Biennale (postponed to 2022).