I will go to Zanzibar

Exhibition from October 11th to January 11th, Opening on October 11th at 11am

International Biennale of Poetry « Les Ailleurs », at Ardennes Museum

ZANZIBAR Opening on Saturday October 11th at 11am. On the occasion of the Biennale for International Poetry « Les Ailleurs », from October 11th 2014 to January 11th 2015, celebrating the 160th anniversay of Arthur Rimbaud’s birth. A Sisygambis exhibition inspired by Arthur Rimbaud as an invitation to dream through mirages, photographs and a musical-video creation from Egypt to Zanzibar.

Rimbaud, his wanderings through Europe, Cyprus and Abyssinia… The man relentlessly sought the faraway true life reached in his poetry, but his thirst was left unquenched along the Orient dusty roads. As we know he never reached Zanzibar and came back to Marseille where he passed away.

Marseille, is also where the Sisygambis artist Christine Coulange lives. Home that she regularly leaves to cross the worldwide roads capturing faces, sceneries, sound and colors. From distant oceans, she transgresses what defies time and justifies traveling: the experience of intensity, generous impromptu and altruist awakening.

In Zanzibar, she unfolded images of seaweed fisherwomen, wise old men, young dreamers and the sea’s eternal backwash. She tamed that land deeply rooted in the crossroads of India, Arabia and Africa, a land that from Segalen to Patti Smith, inspires authors and poets. A time warp where the gap in between yesterday and tomorrow deletes. No matter how intense the work of days may be over there, one observes, deeper than elsewhere, the Elsewhere.

Christine Rodès