L’arbre à serpents ('The snake tree')

L’arbre à serpents ('The snake tree')
Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer and Anna Safiatou Touré present L’arbre à serpents ('The snake tree'), an in situ installation activated by a performance in French and Dgéba, lasting approximately 30 minutes on the evening of the opening .
The filmed performance will be on display for the duration of the exhibition.

Inspired by Isis Labeau-Caberia's invitation to form a pan-mêter (circle of symbolic ancestors), the tree becomes a space for gathering: calling on mothers, warding off oblivion, weaving a counter-memory. Starting from a founding act – declaring themselves sisters – the artists draw an alternative genealogy, populated by mothers, grandmothers and human and non-human ancestors.
This poetic and political tree brings to light the history of women who have long been erased: abolitionist figures, fighters for the freedom of bodies, knowledge and land, reminding us that the struggle was also about the exploitation of the land and imposed monocultures.