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From September 30 to November 29, 2026, MEP Studio presents Land of Wonders, Nanténé Traoré's first museum solo exhibition. Through vibrant imagery of the intimate, his work offers a meditation on memory, attachment, and disappearance.
Nanténé Traoré's return to the Breton coast, which he visited as a child with his mother, brings back traumatic memories and marks the beginning of a period of deep depression and dissociation. Created using expired film stock from the 1990s, the images translate this state of disturbance where reality seems to slip away. The chemical alterations of the film modify the colors, blur the outlines, and produce unstable, almost phantasmic visions. In this landscape inhabited by memories, walks become a way to shift his attention toward the world around him and what constitutes it: coastlines, birds, stray dogs, or familiar sleeping silhouettes. His gaze rests on the fragile beauty of beings and places destined for erasure. Traversed by vaporous, blue, or orange lights, the images blur the boundaries between forms: bodies become landscapes, and landscapes become the reflection of inner states. The film extends this experience of dissolution: a fixed shot of a landscape is accompanied by the artist's inner voice, guiding us to the heart of this sensory and memorial drift. The exhibition brings together a new analog photography project, created in Brittany in the summer of 2025, as well as a film shot during a residency in Albania in the summer of 2026.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: Nanténé Traoré