Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for a unique evening featuring two internationally acclaimed contemporary artists. The event will begin with a talk by French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet, followed by a dynamic performance by choreographer and dancer Aguibou Bougobali Sanou.
After a brief intermission, the artists will be joined in conversation by Cory Gundlach, Curator of African Art, before opening the floor for audience questions.
This program is supported by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
About the artists:
Julien Creuzet is a French-Caribbean artist who lives and works in Paris. A visual artist and poet, he actively intertwines these two practices via amalgams of sculpture, installation, and textual intervention that address his own diasporic experience and his relationship to his ancestral home, Martinique, which he refers to as “the heart of my imagination”. Inspired by the poetic and philosophical reflections of the French Martinican writers Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant on creolization and migration, Creuzet’s work focuses on the troubled intersection between Caribbean histories and the events of European modernity. Creuzet’s distinctive sculptural language often repurposes found materials; relics of detritus washed ashore by oceans or the unrelenting progress of history. Throughout his work, Creuzet creates a dialogue with the question of emancipation and the legacy of the Caribbean diaspora as it exists today.
http://www.andrewkreps.com/artists/julien-creuzet
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou is an internationally recognized dancer, choreographer, and scholar from Burkina Faso, currently Assistant Professor of Dance at Grinnell College (Iowa, USA). He is Artistic Director of Compagnie Tamadia, founder of the In-Out Dance and World Arts Festival in Bobo-Dioulasso, and creator of the Arts Green Culture Factory, a residency that merges artistic creation, cultural dissemination, ecological farming, and community empowerment. His choreographic research—including the ongoing Mask Utopia project—explores African mask traditions, embodied spirituality, and their intersections with contemporary performance and immersive technologies. A Fulbright Laureate (2018) Sanou has received international recognition for his innovative practice. His works, presented across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States, merge dance, visual arts, ecology, and community engagement, weaving together performance, ritual, and social change.
Julien Creuzet image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Photographer: Virginie Ribau