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Manon BARBE
Curatrice et critique d'art

Biography


Vit à : Paris , France

Independent curator and art critic, my practice is grounded in a theory of errancy as a space of emancipation. I conceive exhibitions as spaces for counter-narratives. I am particularly interested in the historical and architectural anchoring of display sites, approached as fields of sensitive interference.

I also develop noncurated, a personal project in which a philosophy of relation unfolds, traversed by questions of authorship. There, I collect poetic and political reflections rooted in the banal and the ordinary condition, composing a curatorial abecedary, letter by letter.

Exhibitions


2024

The Independences, Purple Lab Collective, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, FR

2022

Sea(E)scapes DNA don’t (n)ever ask, Euridice Zaituna Kala, salon H gallery, Paris, FR
With the support of CNAP – the Centre national des arts plastiques

Sink or Swim, Ugo Ahiakwo, Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

Harmony in Discord, Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola, Tolulope Ami-Williams, Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

Waiting for Bus, Dilomprizulike (The Junkman from Africa), Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

Portraits of Public Figures, Seidougha Linus Eyimiegha (Mr. Danfo), Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

Game of Confidence, Taiwo Aina, Claire Nicolas, Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

2021

Young Photographers, Ife Ofulue, Unu Mamu, Nnebuifé Kwubeï, TJ Benson, Neec Nonso, Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

A Lemi Ghariokwu Retrospective Show, Alliance Française Lagos/Mike Adenuga Centre, Lagos, NG

Publications

Curatorial Alphabet. noncurated, 2024, Paris.

Ammar Bouras. Traces: In between Intimacy and Politics. [Barzakh editions], 2023, Algiers.

Wanderings: Bili Bidjocka, Téo Betin, Ana Mendieta. Conversations Magazine, 2022, Paris.

Spotlight on Pocket Park in Burkina Faso. French Institute Magazine. (2020, May 11).

Emmanuel facing Vincent Barré. Gilles Altieri (curator). Exhibition catalogue (Dec 8-Feb 23, 2019), Toulon, Galerie du Canon, 2019.

Today. Simon Njami (curator). Exhibition catalogue (June 20, 2019 – Feb 20, 2020). National Museum of Yaoundé, 2019, 213 p.

“Contours” in The Red Hour. Simon Njami (curator). Exhibition catalogue (May 3-June 2, 2018). Dak’Art Biennale, 2018, 395 p.

Artistic Practices in Wandering: Towards Indeterminacy of Form. Sketches, Works in Progress, and Artists on the Move. Master’s Thesis, Art and Art History, supervised by Miguel Egaña, Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016, 80 p.

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