About the work

This “Care” drawing from a series of 98 drawings was presented at the 11th Berlin Biennial in 2020.
This ensemble was part of the installation Barter Zone, which focused on a field of reflection on “affected bodies” and the precariousness of relationships in societal changes between human groups and our environment.
“How does the body fit into a globalised world?
What can we learn from the countries of the South?
Anti-racial and feminist struggles, and those for equal rights and freedoms, should find common ground, as they ultimately stem from the violence of colonial legacies and imperialism, the current markers of global economic, identity and ecological crises.
As reflected in the archipelagic thinking of Édouard Glissant,
Relationships are at the heart of the living process and of all things. It’s what’s left for us to maintain an ecology of well-being, and of thought.
New forms of humanity must be invented.

Date and country of birth

1955, SN

Career Highlights

Pélagie Gbaguidi has participated in the Berlin Biennale (2020), documenta 14 (2017), the Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and the Dakar Biennale (2004, 2006, 2008, 2014 and 2018). Her work has featured in group shows at Centre Pompidou-Metz, WIELS (Brussels), Musée Rochechouart, Middelheimmuseum (Antwerp), Stadtmuseum (Munich), MMK (Frankfurt), National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) , University of Californy Irvine, Sesc Pompeia ( San Paolo) and for solo show as Mimosa House London (2023).