Roxane Mbanga: NOIRES

193 Gallery is pleased to present the first gallery exhibition of Roxane Mbanga. Roxane Mbanga (b. 1996, Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist of Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and French heritage. Her practice spans fashion, film, graphic design, photography, writing, and performance. As a storyteller, she gathers the narratives of women with plural identities, exploring the complexity of intersecting perspectives on their bodies across different geographies.

 

Since 2021, Mbanga has been developing NOIRES, an immersive project in which she reconstructs the rooms of her imagined home within artistic spaces. Weaving together the threads of her Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and Ivorian heritage, she integrates the stories collected during her travels across Africa and the Caribbean. The first installations—

The Balcony, The Street, The Living Room, and The Bathroom—have been shown at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé, San Mei Gallery in London, Fondation H in Paris.

 

For her exhibition at 193 Gallery, Mbanga unveils two new immersive installations: The Dining Room and The Terrace. The Dining Room invites visitors to step into the echo of meals left unfinished: a table still inhabited by unseen presences, laughter stretched across memory, and the lingering resonance of past dinners. The Terrace, open and luminous, invites visitors to gather in a space inspired by Guadeloupean terraces. Here, we cross the threshold between inside and outside, where expectation meets encounter and traces of departures and absences come into view. These installations are activated by dinners that bring together Black women to share conversations on race, class, and their intersections

with artistic practice. A varied cultural program—featuring readings, workshops, and interdisciplinary exchanges—extends this exploration and invites the public to engage with these spaces.

 

Roxane Mbanga’s work has also been presented this year at Stewart Hall Gallery in Canada (2025) and at MANSA – Maison des Mondes Africains, where she inaugurated the institution’s exhibition program with her solo show NOIRES, featuring the installation Grand Salon.

 

With the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) as part of its support program for galleries.