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This exhibition presents the work of several Reunion Island artists. Deeply anchored in the reality of today’s contemporary art, the works also bear a strong connection with history, forgotten stories, migrations as well as encounters and exchanges and cross breeding.
Geographically, the Reunion island is located at a crossroads between India, Africa and the Far East. As a result of a four centuries long history Reunion Island culture took its present shape through a complex process of syncretism, cross-dissemination and fusion of elements.
This process is very much akin to the artist’s creative approach. Hence the wealth of creation that came from the Creole world and the various civilizations that created it. The members of this creative process take their inspiration from the cultural exchanges, constantly creating or reinventing new links with their Creole culture.
The exhibit invites us to discover the artists’ creative imagination through their work, enhanced by their sense of utopia, humor, caricature.
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As part of its regional Cooperation programme, the Regional Council of Reunion has set up a series of cultural exchanges with parts of the world where the island’s populations originate from.
In 2007, Kardinal , the first of the projects of the series, consisted in an exchange with China represented by the artist Chen Tong.
The following year, the project entitled Trait contemporain or “Contemporary link” highlighted the energy and diversity of the artistic environment in India, through a collective exhibition and a national publication based on a workshop conducted by AVISHEK SEN, a young Indian artist.
As a continuation of this collective production, the Regional Council plans to promote artists from Reunion on the artistic scene in India, through a collective itinerant exhibition of the work of several Reunionese artists.
Forms of art other than paining will be included, and a catalogue of the works exhibited will be published under the direction of Francine Méoule.
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