Paris noir. Circulations artistiques, luttes anticoloniales 1950-2000

From the magazine Présence africaine to Revue noire, ‘Paris noir’ traces the presence and influence of Black artists in France between the 1940s and 2000. It highlights one hundred and fifty Afro-descendant artists, from Africa to the Americas, whose works have often never been shown in France. A revelation of a cosmopolitan Paris, the exhibition shows how the Parisian scene has given rise to a wide variety of practices, ranging from identity awareness to the search for transcultural visual languages. ‘Paris noir’ reveals the importance of Afro-descendant artists in redefining modernity and post-modernity.