Céline Bureau X BOILING POINT
present:
« Je propagerai mes mots jusqu’à temps d’exister »
curated by Audrey Béland
artists:
Taïna Mueth
Isadora Lima Fortin
Bouchra Assou
Taïna Mueth
Isadora Lima Fortin
Bouchra Assou
"Je Propagerai mes mots jusqu'à temps d'exister" is about the agency of women’s speech and its propensity to change the world. It emerged from the firm belief that a conversation amongst women has a transformative power, on an individual level and a community level. It’s the birth of every good revolution. This exhibition is a celebration of conversations between women, therefore it is also a subversion and re-appropriation of the concept of gossiping ( a term usually used to ridicule and portray as frivolous the act of women talking).
For this exhibtion, I wanted to delve into the Igbo’s principle Nneka or “Mother is Supreme”. Nneka is a visual exploration of a mother's voice as being supreme and how the voices of women are transformative, nourishing, enriching, an act of resilience, and the backbone of their community. It’s a representation of mothers and women as keepers of the past, of the traditions and forgotten knowledge transmitted through generations by oral tradition.
“The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival," Audre Lorde
My work involves the use of collage and library collections to explore how the past and the present are intertwined. I have always found it fascinating to search archives and learn more deeply about the history of people before us who have forged the way so that we can have the life we have. I believe that we must know where we came from to know where we are going, to learn from the error of History and all her wonders.
“We are not born women of color. We become women of color. In order to become women of color, we would need to become fluent in each others’ histories, to resist and unlearn an impulse to claim first oppression, most-devastating oppression, one-of-a-kind oppression, defying comparison oppression. [...] We cannot afford to cease yearning for each others’ company.”
- M. Jacqui Alexander
