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Roxane Mbanga – 193 Gallery, Parijs

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193 Gallery is pleased to present the first gallery exhibition of Roxane Mbanga.
Roxane Mbanga (b. 1996, Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist of Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and French heritage. Her practice spans fashion, film, graphic design, photography, writing, and performance. As a storyteller, she gathers the narratives of women with plural identities, exploring the complexity of intersecting perspectives on their bodies across different geographies.
Since 2021, Mbanga has been developing NOIRES, an immersive project in which she reconstructs the rooms
of her imagined home within artistic spaces. Weaving together the threads of her Guadeloupean, Cameroonian, and Ivorian heritage, she integrates the stories collected during her travels across Africa and the Caribbean.
The first installations—The Balcony, The Street, The Living Room, and The Bathroom—have been shown at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Cameroon in Yaoundé, San Mei Gallery in London, Fondation H in Paris.
For her exhibition at 193 Gallery, Mbanga unveils two new immersive installations: The Dining Room and The Terrace. The Dining Room invites visitors to step into the echo of meals left unfinished: a table still inhabited by unseen presences, laughter stretched across memory, and the lingering resonance of past dinners. The Terrace, open and luminous, invites visitors to gather in a space inspired by Guadeloupean terraces. Here, we cross the threshold between inside and outside, where expectation meets encounter and traces of departures and absences come into view. These installations are activated by dinners that bring together Black women to share conversations on race, class, and their intersections with artistic practice. A varied cultural program—featuring readings, workshops, and interdisciplinary exchanges—extends this exploration and invites the public to engage
with these spaces.

And we hired a carpenter to patch the cloth. Eva Obodo – Afikaris Gallery, Parijs

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Obodo describes his process as gestures of repairing wounds that history has left open and tying disparate parts together, both materially and symbolically. He believes that materials possess their own agency and capacity to speak, and by listening to his materials, Eva Obodo allows charcoal to narrate intertwined stories of exploitation, resilience, and hope.

Thandiwe Muriu – 193 Gallery, Parijs, Frankrijk

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193 Gallery has the pleasure to announce its third solo exhibition by Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu, whose work explores themes of identity, culture, and female empowerment. The exhibition Clouds Bring Blessings unveils a new body of work in which the artist opens a dialogue with her natural environment and affirms her ongoing commitment to exploring cultural heritage. For these portraits, Muriu produced her own textile patterns using the tie & dye technique. A short film, on view in the exhibition, captures this creative journey.