Tessilim Adjayi, Mohamadou Ndoye Douts et Maria-Gracia Latedjou

Tessilim Adjayi, a Togolese photographer, presents a series entitled One two meters for security, which consists of black and white photographs of two Yawo brothers who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 and who wear masks to protect themselves from the virus and to remind themselves of how dangerous it is, but also to remember the dead because traditions and customs in Ewe, Togo, specify that the masks are made to remember the dead.

Mohamadou Ndoye Douts is a Senegalese visual artist who presents an animated film entitled Train train Medina. It tells the story of a village "Medina" that was built by stealing sand from a beach. At the beginning, the medina is small and it grows as it goes along. The atmosphere is warmer, more dynamic. But in the end, nature always takes over.

In her short film, Angolan artist Maria-Gracia Latedjou tells the story of an old woman who devotes herself to creating a "magic" potion, which she develops and sells to passers-by in a hurry on their way to work. The potion is said to be "magical" and powerful because of its effect on anyone who drinks it. The potion is said to have curative and beneficial effects on people's mental health and especially on their mood.

Horizons d'eaux

The 5th edition of Horizons d'eaux. A contemporary and living art trail on the Canal de Midi has this year as its theme The Spirits of Water and takes place in the context of the Africa2020 Season. In a spirit of sharing, experimentation and encounters around contemporary art and music, this programme brings together a creation on a sailing barge entrusted to the Egyptian artist Samuel El Kordy and exhibitions organised by the Egyptian curator Heba elCheikh.
"In the "Spirits of Water" exhibitions, we seek to capture what connects us to the canal and we invite the public to do so with us. To observe in order to understand the laws of water, its flow, its buoyancy, its rush and slowness, but also its reflection, as well as its own ways of scaling our human sensory perceptions." Heba elCheikh

The exhibitions, which take place as part of the Africa2020 Season, are designed around the major challenges of the 21st century and present the views of African and diaspora artists.

"In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out into the world. And because the road was once a river, it was always hungry. In the country, in the beginning, the spirits mingled with the unborn."
Ben Okri, The Famine Road, 1991.

"Les Esprits de l'eau" exhibitions are part of the Africa2020 Season

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The "Horizons d'eaux" programme is produced by Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse and Frac Occitanie Montpellier, in partnership with Festival Convivencia and Voies navigables de France.