MINIA BIABIANY
Born in 1988 in Guadeloupe, Minia Biabiany works and lives in Guadeloupe. In her practice she observes how the perception of the body is entangled with the perception of space, land and history. Mainly in installations and videos, she examines the paradigm and the gestures of weaving by creating poetic and political narratives linked with self-understanding and healing. She explores the possibility of an enunciation out of the dominant colonial storytelling particularly in the context of Guadeloupe, and of the taboo of the consequences of the French assimilation in the relationship between the population, the land, and plants.
Biabiany initiated the artistic and pedagogical collective project Semillero Caribe in 2016 in Mexico City, and continues to explore the deconstruction of narratives with the sensations of the body and concepts from Caribbean authors with the experimental platform Doukou.
She studied in the fine art school ENSBA Lyon in France. Her work has been shown in the 10th Biennale de Berlin, TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica, Witte de Wite in Rotterdam, Cràter Invertido in Mexico, Prix Sciences Po pour l’art contemporain 2019 in Paris, SIGNAL in Malmö, and will soon exhibited in the Palais de Tokyo in fall 2022. Her first multilingual monograph Ritmo Volcan just came out at the publishing house Temblores.
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