After nearly six years of activity at Komunuma, for our latest exhibition in Romainville, we wanted to address the theme of the erasure of the human figure. In dialogue with Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Raphaël Denis, Gabriel Leger and Éric Manigaud, we invited two emerging artists, Alessandro di Lorenzo and Thien-Ngoc NgoRioufol, the former recently discovered at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, the latter at DOC, an artistic production space in the 19th arrondissement.

Supported for several years by art critic, poet and exhibition storyteller Chris CyrilleIsaac, with whom we collaborate regularly, we wanted to involve visual artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, whose studio we visited during a prospecting trip to Guadeloupe last winter. We have also solicited our colleagues with whom we opened the site in 2019, who have kindly entrusted us with works by Bruno Pelassy and Lawrence Weiner (Air de Paris), Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (Fabienne Leclerc - In Situ) and Eugène Carrière (Jocelyn Wolff).

To take an interest in the erasure of the human figure is to address the dizzying question of time, memory and remembrance, that of identity, confused and fragile, and more fundamentally to confront the sensitive issue of humanism in contemporary art and in our societies.