Forever Weak and Ungrateful
2015
Forever Weak and Ungrateful
2015
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc's works seek to shift points of view and question established relations of power.
Abonnenc explores colonial histories and their ramifications in the contemporary world. Louis-Ernest Barrias's Guyanese monument dedicated to Victor Schoelcher, the French abolitionist, serves as the starting point for the photogravures and the sculpture. Abonnenc's viewpoint deconstructs this representationof the abolition of slavery, thus suggesting the ambiguity of the distribution of roles between the dominating and the dominated. The sculpture is a cast of the leg of a freed slave. For the artist, this negative is a fragment of a body waiting to be reinvented.
| Domain | Reproduction photomécanique |
|---|---|
| Techniques | Héliogravure |
| Dimensions | 30,7 x 47,4 cm |
| Acquisition | Don de Amis du Centre Pompidou, 2020 |
| Inventory no. | AM 2021-382 (6) |
| Is part of the set |
Forever Weak and Ungrateful (Indissociable set of artworks) |
Detailed description
| Artist |
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
(1977, France) | |
|---|---|---|
| Main title | Forever Weak and Ungrateful | |
| Creation date | 2015 | |
| Is part of the set | Forever Weak and Ungrateful (Indissociable set of artworks) 2015 Ensemble de 12 héliogravures. | |
| Domain | Reproduction photomécanique | |
| Description | Appartient à une série de 12 héliogravures | |
| Techniques | Héliogravure | |
| Dimensions | 30,7 x 47,4 cm | |
| Acquisition | Don de Amis du Centre Pompidou, 2020 | |
| Collection area | Cabinet de la photographie | |
| Inventory no. | AM 2021-382 (6) |
