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Af-Flux – Transnational Black Biennial, Art Mûr Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2021
Being “black” cannot designate an identity, a community, a precise diaspora, and even less a culture. The black body participates in one of the earliest transnational experiences of our globalized world; what W.E.B. Du Bois calls the “double consciousness” and what Walter Mignolo calls the “Im-migrant” (in translation the “I’m-migrant”); that is to say, an “I “ that defines itself by the passage from one world to another and not only in relation to the territory of birth. Thus, it is built, out of Africa, on the various grounds of the West, singular and rich experiences. Af-flux Transnational Black Biennial wishes to link these experiences and heritages that are awakening everywhere in the West.
Each of the artists in this event questions this part of transnational identity that does not choose the subtraction, but the identity addition (and/and). How do the bossale direct and indirect descendants, African American artists, African Europeans and African diapora articulate the world? What kind of decolonial dialogue emerges from the encounter of Afrodescendant and African artists from here and abroad? How do these artists invest the field of contemporary art? What are their radicalities (roots)? - Eddy Firmin