Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde et Toni Morrison

Visual arts
Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry – le Crédac
septembersept 21 - december - dec 21
Free

The exhibition opens on Saturday 21 September from 5pm to 9pm.

Free admission Wednesday to Friday, 2pm to 6pm, Saturdays and Sundays 2pm to 7pm. Closed on public holidays.

Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry – le Crédac

Saturday september 21

17h00

Sunday september 22

14h00

Wednesday september 25

14h00

Thursday september 26

14h00

Friday september 27

14h00

Saturday september 28

14h00

Sunday september 29

14h00

Wednesday october 2

14h00

Thursday october 3

14h00

Friday october 4

14h00

Saturday october 5

14h00

Sunday october 6

14h00

Wednesday october 9

14h00

Thursday october 10

14h00

Friday october 11

14h00

Saturday october 12

14h00

Sunday october 13

14h00

Wednesday october 16

14h00

Thursday october 17

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Friday october 18

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Saturday october 19

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Sunday october 20

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Wednesday october 23

14h00

Thursday october 24

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Friday october 25

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Saturday october 26

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Sunday october 27

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Wednesday october 30

14h00

Thursday october 31

14h00

Friday november 1

14h00

Saturday november 2

14h00

Sunday november 3

14h00

Wednesday november 6

14h00

Thursday november 7

14h00

Friday november 8

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Saturday november 9

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Sunday november 10

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Wednesday november 13

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Thursday november 14

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Friday november 15

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Saturday november 16

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Sunday november 17

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Wednesday november 20

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Thursday november 21

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Friday november 22

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Saturday november 23

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Sunday november 24

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Wednesday november 27

14h00

Thursday november 28

14h00

Friday november 29

14h00

Saturday november 30

14h00

Sunday december 1

14h00

Wednesday december 4

14h00

Thursday december 5

14h00

Friday december 6

14h00

Saturday december 7

14h00

Sunday december 8

14h00

Wednesday december 11

14h00

Thursday december 12

14h00

Friday december 13

14h00

Saturday december 14

14h00

Curator Claire Le Restif director of Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac and Elvan Zabunyan, art historian, professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

With artworks by Annouchka de Andrade and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Krista Franklin, Kapwani Kiwanga, Paul Maheke, Sarah Maldoror, Paula Valero Comín (in progress).

Archives held and consulted at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, at The Women’s Research and Resource Center, Spelman College in Atlanta and at the Princeton University Library in the United States.
In partnership with secondary schools Romain Rolland (Ivry-sur-Seine) and Danielle Casanova (Vitry-sur-Seine).

Production Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac
Coproduction Festival d’Automne à Paris 
With the support of the United States Embassy in France

The Contemporary Art Center of Ivry — le Crédac and The Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this exhibition. 

Visit in French Sign Language
Saturday 23 November 2024 from 4pm to 6pm, in the presence of Elvan Zabunyan and Claire Le Restif, curators of the exhibition.

In November 2023, Angela Davis was guest at the Festival d'Automne for a conversation with Elvan Zabunyan about the meeting point between the arts and activism. A year later, the Crédac contemporary art centre now presents a group exhibition bringing together archive material by Angela Davis, Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison.

The starting point for Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, et Toni Morrison is the research carried out in early 2024 by art historian Elvan Zabunyan into the respective archives of these three major figures. For a long period of time, their political, philosophical, poetic and literary writings have accompanied her research on contemporary African-American art. Education, the sharing of experiences, the need for political pedagogy, and the promotion of hope and freedom in order to counter racism, sexism and social and cultural deprivation, are at the heart of these writings. Making use of this unique material, students from two secondary schools (in Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine) will be participating in writing and creative workshops organized by the Crédac. In the exhibition, the works produced by the students themselves dialogue with a selection of archives and works of art chosen by Claire Le Restif, director of the Crédac, and Elvan Zabunyan.