“Blue prints” exhibition
4 juillet 202415 Rue Chasssagnolle, 93260
Les Lilas




French version
The exhibition “Blue Prints” was a project curated by the Initiative for Olivier Marboeuf.
Born in 1971 in Guadeloupe , Olivier Marboeuf is an author, storyteller, curator and film producer. His works challenges the Western vision of the sea, reimagining it into a canvas of historical and contemporary conflict. The pictorial imaginary of these Blue Prints reveals the sea as a site of necropolitic and economic conflict, lie the legacies of the Middle Passage, the slave trade, the struggles of the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. These images are the phantoms that haunt the place, for interrupted and dispersed histories, like the materials and signs that converse in secret in and around the exhibition. The presence of overseas blue underlines the deep links between French modernity and colonial extraction.
This exhibition was part of the Museum of Breath - a project that imagined the minority practices of the archive through a series of repetitions of past struggles from an abolitionist perspective.
Photographic Credits:
Blue Prints (Tête de morts et de vivants, 2024, acrylique sur toile, 20 x 30 cm, 40 X 50 cm et 80 X 100 cm) by Olivier Marboeuf