{"id":21215,"date":"2026-02-19T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/?post_type=exposition&#038;p=21215"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:33:27","slug":"myriam-mihindou-3","status":"publish","type":"exposition","link":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/exposition\/myriam-mihindou-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparatory drawings for trophy installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PREPARATORY DRAWINGS FOR THE TROPHY INSTALLATION, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MUS\u00c9E DU QUAI BRANLY EXHIBITION EX AFRICA CURATORSHIP PHILIPPE DAGEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why the title Troph\u00e9e (Trophy)? Why \"hunt for fences and gates topped with a fleur-de-lys to create this installation?\" Because, the artist\nsays : \"for centuries, monuments, coins, fabrics, tapestries, sculptures, statues, works of art, paintings were marked with the fleur-de-lys\".\nDuring the French Revolution, this symbol was \"profaned, dismantled, vandalised, beheaded, mutilated, burnt, destroyed : an ideological\npurification to sacrifice everything that evoked royalty\". This story is echoed today. \"In 2018, the restitution of the cultural heritage of Africa is\na source of debate. The word restitution implies awareness of one's own identity. All societies go through processes of destruction, restoration\nand construction. All have their practices of power and magic. It is therefore necessary to understand the meaning of objects of memory, too\noften exalted to idolatry or erased. Let's pick up the dream where we left off\".<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":21217,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-21215","exposition","type-exposition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-passees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition\/21215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}