Exhibition catalog.

Invited to reinvest the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière gallery, the French-Gabonese artist Myriam Mihindou presents a unique installation that celebrates Punu culture through the collections of musical instruments and sound archives preserved at the museum. Through the work of ceramics, the assemblage of objects, sculptures, forms, materials, sounds and the interactions generated with visitors, she offers a work that allows us to see, hear and feel the relationship she maintains with her culture.

Myriam Mihindou pays homage to the Punu mourners, of which she herself is one, true soul companions who guide the deceased to the afterlife and the living in their mourning. She re-examines an ancestral practice as well as the stories and myths that accompany it and, through her plural work, "total, performative, organic and corporeal" as she likes to emphasize, highlights the cathartic virtue of the songs and tears of these women on the social and individual body.

Exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from February 6 to November 10, 2024