Roxane Mbanga: Noires - Fondation H, Paris
The Fondation H invited Roxane Mbanga for a three-month residency in the Parisian space of the Fondation H where the artist develops the sequel to the installation NOIRES, started in 2021.
The artist Roxane Mbanga created an oasis in Paris. But unlike the oasis that is seen from afar, the green of the vegetation emerging in the desert announcing that finally, we will reach a refuge, and be able to quench our thirst, rest, and find a welcome, Roxane’s hides from the gaze. But the one that appears or the one that hides both provides the same shelter, the same refuge for bodies exposed to an environment hostile to life, a place where to find water, rest, food and the welcome of a community. It is therefore logical to appropriate this term of oasis, derived from a word from one of the languages of Egypt, taken again in Greek then in Latin, which describes the place where, thanks to a source of water, human life finds shelter and refuge in a hostile environment, to designate what Roxane Mbanga created.
