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De la mer à la terre

Salut Au Monde!

23/09 - 04/10

R. da Alegria 940
Wednesday→Saturday: 3pm-7pm

For her first exhibition in Portugal, Cédrine Scheidig shows a selection of images from her more recent series: ‘La troîsieme île’ (‘The Third Island’) and ‘Les Mornes, Le Feu’ (‘The Hills, The Fire’), put together under the name ‘De la mer à la terre’ (‘From the sea to the land’). Both projects depict two sides of one reality, the life of the antillan youth at both sides of the Atlantic.

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The first project explores the “third island” made up of Caribbean populations living on the outskirts of Paris. Navigating between this other form of urban and concrete insularity and its spaces of escape, the photographer explores in a free and poetic investigation the presence of Caribbean bodies and imaginaries in the Suburban Paris of yesterday and today. On her second projects — born of her fascination with urban culture in the Caribbean worlds —, Schedig explores the spaces where this culture is inhabited, hybridized and transformed on a daily basis, breaking away from the paradise-like imaginary and stereotypes associated with caribbeaness, the photographs offer alternative representations of island life and tender portraits of black masculinity, in an exploration of the post-colonial city as a place where Afro-descendant identities are continually experienced, learned, transcended and redefined.

Both realities encounter and dialogue at the exhibition space, offering a vibrant portrait of a generation that is redefining our understanding of Franco-Caribbean identities today.

Cédrine Scheidig

Cédrine Scheidig (born 1994 in Paris, France) is a French-Caribbean photographer based in Paris. Her work, anchored between Europe and the Americas, is an exploration of blackness and the spaces where it is inhabited, redefined and transformed on a daily basis. A graduate from Ecole Nationale de la Photographe d’Arles (2021), her work has been presented in several group exhibitions, including Fotografia Europea Festival (2023, Italy), Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane (2023, Guyane), Plat(t)form Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022, Switzerland), Dior Prize w/ LUMA Foundation (2021, Arles), Rencontres internationales de la photographie (2021, Arles) and in a debut solo exhibition at Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, in February 2023. She has been nominated among the British Journal Photography «Ones to Watch» (2022, UK), and shortlisted for the C/O Talent Award (2022, Germany), and the MAST Foundation Photography Grant (2022, Italy) among others. In 2021, she won the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents (Arles). She has recently been the recipient of the national photography grant from CNAP, Les Regards du Grand Paris, for its 7th Edition in 2023-2024 (France).

https://cedrinescheidig.cargo.site/

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