«The boss is a concept that helps me to create, to multiply. As with the principle of the Langue Secouée this matrix allows me to create a universe. I can shift, stay in the movement. I create associations with shapes and words.» Myriam Mihindou
« Liquids are omnipresent: papers are steeped in lemon tea or rose- hip infusions, salts and sand, sweat or tears. Flux, drips, trickles and seepages evoke the fluid mechanics of the human body and geophysics alike. Undulating sheets suggest silty riverbeds, with stitching for veins and scars. Sandbags look like kidneys. »
« This profound humility is central to her work. A particular humility rooted in the word’s Latin origins, from humilis: low, lowly, humble, and earth (or humus). A hands-on physicality, close contact between the artist’s body and the body of the work, through a process of immersion. »
Guillaume Désanges, journal de la Verrière n°30, Caress all the curves of existence, exhibition Myriam Mihindou ÉPIDERME , Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Brussels, 2022, p.6-7
BIOGRAPHY
French-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou (b. 1964 in Libreville, Gabon) is the winner of the 2022 Prix Nouveau Regard AWARE. Mihin- dou studied architecture and visual art, and attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. She works with a broad range of media, from performance to textiles, drawing, installation, video, and photography, exploring the porosity between these different expressive spaces. Care, healing, ritual and the memory of the body are central themes in her work, as she experiments with texture and raw materials, soaking, twisting and wringing, juxtaposing, stitch- ing or gouging. Her oeuvre explores physical experience and mem- ory, and the memory of place, drawing on language, history and learning to shed light on the cathartic function of art. Her work has been shown in recent years at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (Las Palmas, Canary Islands), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain), the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany) and the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati, USA).
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Le Grand Désenvoûtement, chapitre 1, The 20th anniversary of the Palais de Tokyo”. Palais de Tokyo. Paris. Curator : Guillaume Désanges “De toi à moi”, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville. Curator : Jennifer Flay “Épiderme”, La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Bruxelles. Curator : Guillaume Désanges “El teatro de la memoria”, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Grande Canarie, (Canary Islands) “Globalisto. A Philosophy in Flux”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Étienne, (France)
2021 “La Déconniatrie”, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, (Spain); American Folk Art Museum, New York, (USA) “le Silo”, Transpalette, Bourges, (France) “EX AFRICA”, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, (France) “Absalon, Absalon”, IVAM Valencià, Valencia, (Spain); CAPC Bordeaux, (France)
2020 “Monographie Ernest Mancoba”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (France), followed by the Södertälje Kommun, Södertälje, (Sweden) “Possédé.e.s”, MO.CO., Montpellier, (France) 2019 “Confinement, Politics of Space and Bodies”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, (USA) “Khamsa, À cent mètres du monde”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Perpignan, (France) 2018 “Aucun de ses os ne sera brisé”, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, (France)
