Emo de Medeiros

**Emo de Medeiros** (born 1979) be a Beninese artist wey dey live den work for Paris, France den for Cotonou, Benin.

Ein work dey explore themes of transculturalism, transforming identities, post-colonial representations, den globalization as a worldwide hybridization plus mutation. He sansu throw questions give de African continent ein transformations insyd de context of de digital revolution den de occurrence of a Pan-African 21st-century *TransAfrica* for transition between tradition den accelerated innovation.

## Background den education
After he spend ein kiddie time den teenage years insyd Cotonou, Benin, he move go France make he pursue an academic education. He graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure insyd Paris wer na he study history, sociology den anthropology, after wich he continue ein training for de Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts wey sanso dey Paris.
## Work
Emo de Medeiros ein work dey cross a variety of mediums, wey dey include photography, video, textile, painting, performance, den sculpture, wey dey investigate themes of social den symbolic interactions, of de relationship to de digital civilization, of ethnicity den Panafricanism insyd a post-colonial context. He sam times associate plus afrofuturism.

## Exhibitions

### 2021

* 13th Gwangju biennale. Curators: Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala. Gwangju, South Korea
* *Ex Africa*. Curator: Philippe Dagen. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.
* XXII Paiz Art Biennial. Curators: Gabriel Rodriguez et Alexia Tala. Guatemala City, Guatemala.
* *Comme de longs échos*. Curators: Jean-Michel Jagot et Julie Pellegrin. Garenne- Lemot/Musée Dobrée, Nantes, France.
* *Rhizomes*. Curator: Paula Nascimento. La Base Sous Marine, Bordeaux, France
* *Ce qui s’oublie et ce qui reste*. Curator: Meriem Berrada. Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris, France.

### 2020

* *Now Look Here (The African Art of Appearance)*. Curator : Renny Ramakers. New North, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
* *Maison de Force*. Curators : Marynet J. et Cléophée Moser, le Collectif Eaux Fortes. Aedaen Gallery, Strasbourg, France.

* *Cosmopolis #2.0: Rethinking the Human*. Curator : Kathryn Weir. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
* 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, *Imagined Communities*. Artistic Director : Solange Farkas. Curatorr : Gabriel Bogossian. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
* São Tomé Art Biennale VIII. Curator : Renny Ramakers. São Tomé and Principe, Brasil.
* *TIIT*, performance. Goethe Institut, Salvador de Bahia, Brasil.

### 2018

* *Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence*, Curator : Kathryn Weir. Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Chengdu, China.
* Biennale de Casablanca 4th edition, *Récits des bords de l’eau (Tales of water margins)*. Artistic director : Christine Eyene. Casablanca, Morocco.
* LagosPhoto Festival 2018. Curators : Eva Barois De Caevel, Wunika Mukan, Charlotte Langhorst et Valentine Umansky. Lagos, Nigeria.
* *Chromatics*, solo show, 50 Golborne Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
* *Les pouvoirs des émotions*. Curators : Laure Kaltenbach et Armelle Pasco. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
* Dak'art Biennale 13th edition, *L’heure rouge / Une nouvelle humanité (The red hour / A new humanity)*. Artistic director : Simon Njami. Palais de Justice, Dakar, Senegal.
* *Do Disturb*, Festival of performing arts. Curator : Vittoria Matarrese. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

### 2017

* *Africa Aperta II*, group show. Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France.
* Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival. Artistic director : Solange Farkas. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
* *Digital Africa*, group show. Curator : Christine Eyene. OGU MAG gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
* *Die Schönheit im Anderen*, group show. Curatour : Mark Gisbourne. Lieberose Castle, Germany.
* *The Black Sphinx*, group show. Primo Marella gallery, Milano, Italy.
* *Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow*, group show. Curators : Kerstin Pinther and Alexandra Weigand. Galerie Karen Wimmer, Munich, Germany.
* *Afriques Capitales*, group show. Curator : Simon Njami (installation proposal by Dominique Fiat), Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France.
* *Vers le Cap de Bonne-Espérance*, group show. Curateur : Simon Njami. Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France.
* *Le Havre - Dakar, partager la mémoire*, group show. Curator : Cédric Crémière. Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Le Havre, France.

### 2016

* *Transpositions*, 50 Golborne gallery, London, United Kingdom
* *Transmutations*, Backslash gallery, Paris, France
* 12th Dakar Biennale, *Witnesses of the Invisible*, Dakar, Senegal
* 6th Marrakech Biennale, "Not New Now", Marrakech, Marocco

### 2015

* *All things magic*, RSF gallery, Paris, France
* Venice Biennale Off, *Benin Pavilion*, Venice, Italy
* *Vodunaut*, Centre Arts et Cultures, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

### 2014

* *Kaleta/Kaleta*, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

### 2013

* *Black Light Sanctuary*, 58th Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

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