Conceived by curator Marie-Ann Yemsi, this exhibition invites us to explore "Ubuntu", a space still untouched by our imaginations and knowledge. Untranslatable in Western languages, the meaning of this term, derived from the Bantu languages of southern Africa, combines notions of humanity, the collective and hospitality.

This notion thus irrigated the thinking of liberation movements in the post-colonial African experience of the 1960s, fuelling aspirations for the construction of an African socialism or the idea of a political pan-Africanism, for example. 

Among the invited artists, Madagascan Joël Andrianomearisoa was invited to intervene at two stages of the exhibition's discovery. On arrival at the Palais de Tokyo, with a luminous work on its façade, and at the entrance to the exhibition, with monumental pieces that let you experience the density of a flora as muted as it is obscure. 

The Yavarhoussen Fund was a sponsor of this exhibition, enabling the production and display of these two pieces.