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"WE, C'EST MOI"  is a fine art exhibition featuring ten contemporary African artists from Francophone countries. Their works in painting, sculpture, photography and video all share the common idea of “Ubuntu,” an African philosophy emphasizing the pursuit of the individual’s discovery of self within the community. “The belief that a person can only discover himself or herself through other people,” is very present in African society, where people often identify themselves by the places they live in, the people they are connected to, and the work they engage. Today, this sense of community is often overshadowed by individual concerns and one fails to realize the essential role the collective plays in the construction of the self. The "we" is essential in building the individual, the "me".

 

The global community in which we exist today is an environment, where current events on one side of the world affect those in another part. As pieces of a bigger picture, we should consider ourselves in respect to others to progress in the communities we engage in.

 

By offering a view of the contemporary African art in this curation, we seek to celebrate

this diversity in unity. In this unity our fragmented individuality is part of the whole collective no matter our background or where we are in the world - in homes, in society, in nations.

"I am what I am because of who we all are.

UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY 
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