From left to right: Chemin du Montparnasse, © Margot Montigny/AWARE; Portrait of Kássia Borges; Design by Lisa Sturacci studio, © AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe metro station, Exit 2, Lines 4, 6, 12 and 13
Villa Vassilieff is accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties thanks to special facilities (access ramp, adapted toilets, and a lift).
In addition, several reserved parking spaces are available close to the Villa Vassilieff:
• in front of 4 rue d’Alençon, 75015 Paris
• in front of 7 rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris
• in front of 23 rue de l’Arrivée, 75015 Paris
Consult the map of adapted parking spaces in Paris here.
In collaboration with Espace Frans Krajcberg, AWARE invites Kássia Borges for a research residency, to reflect on the place of indigenous women, artists, and activists, in today’s Brazil. During the round table discussion on December 19, K. Borges will present a selection of works by Brazilian indigenous women artists, each dealing in her way with the feminine, and will then open a dialogue with artists and activists Yuuwey and Keywa Henri, from French Guiana.
Tuesday 19 December 2023, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
SAMPLE, 2022, coloured inks, voice in Kalin’a/French/English
“Kɨmomussaton Elobo”, 2023, poem in Kalin’a/wayana/French
“J’enflamme la Terre”, 2023, poem in Makuxi/Kalin’a/Portuguese/French
This residency is part of the research program “The Origin of Others. Rewriting Art History in the Americas, 19th Century – Today”.
Kássia Borges is a visual artist, researcher, educator, curator at MASP (São Paulo), and indigenous activist. Drawing on her knowledge of the traditional pottery from the Karajá community to which she belongs, she mainly uses clay for her contemporary creations. Her research focuses on origins, womenhood, and genealogy. She is also a member of the MAHKU collective (Mouvement Artistique Huni Kuin), a collective whose practice translates into painting the traditional Huni Kuin songs born of visions provoked during the spiritual ceremonies of Nixi Pae (ayahuasca).
Yuuwey Henri is a French-Brazilian thinker, poet, writer, and member of the Kali’na Tilewuyu nation of “Guvane Française”, born in Kourou. Inspired by the visionary, militant, and historic mission led by her father Paul Henri for the indigenous cause in “Guvane Française” in the 80s, Yuuwey works to fortify the preservation of Kalin’a culture and consolidate the indigenous presence in today’s society.
Keywa Henri is the first Kali’na Tilewuyu artist to graduate from the Beaux-Arts de Lyon, in 2022, a Franco-Brazilian born in Kourou. Her practice invests in the field of animation while elaborating a way of thinking around the existences and stories of the Original Peoples of Abya Yala (“The Americas”). Keywa understands animation as a language of transformation, leading her to develop protean projects, drawing on materials that engage in dialogue with her own preoccupations. Drawing on her life experience, she constructs an aesthetic, identity, social and political reflection, with an indigenous and decolonial perspective, working towards indigenous empowerment.
