The exhibition Paris Noir traces the presence and influence of black artists in France between the 1940s and the 2000s, starting with the creation of the magazine Présence Africaine and arriving at that of the Revue Noire. An exhibition that highlights 150 artists of African origin whose works have often never been presented to the public in France. Actors of a cosmopolitan Paris, a place of resistance and creation, which gave rise to a great variety of practices, ranging from identity awareness to the search for significant plastic languages in the redefinition of modernity and postmodernity. The exhibition retraces half a century of struggles for emancipation, from African independence to the fall of apartheid, passing through the struggles against racism in France.
