Galerie Dagoma-Harty
M'barek Bouhchichi & Kelani Abass
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"Faire face"
Sans titre, ©galeriedagomaharty©m'barekbouhchichi
Facing
There are faces that history has tried to erase. Presences kept in the shadow of dominant narratives — and yet persistent, active.
M’barek Bouhchichi and Kelani Abass work with materials that seem wholly opposed: yellow rubber, almost organic, which absorbs and holds the trace; typographic characters inherited from a father who was a printer, which fragment and reactivate the archive.
Their conviction is shared: memory is not a repository, but a practice. To paint a face, to assemble signs, is to decide what endures.
These works stand at the edge of that question — where the image wavers, between what has been silenced and what returns. The visitor is invited to meet that gaze: not as figures from the past, but as presences that engage our own.
To face is to accept that encounter.
Duo show of M’barek Bouhchichi and Kelani Abass
From May 20 to July 31, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 30 May 2026 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Opening – Galerie Dagoma-Harty
75006, Paris, France 07 59 51 08 08 galeriedagomaharty.com
The gallery
Located on Rue de Seine in Paris, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Gallery Dagoma-Harty is a contemporary art gallery with a particular focus on African and diaspora artists, whose essential contribution to international artistic dialogue it seeks to have recognized.
It develops a multidisciplinary programme — painting, photography, sculpture — through exhibitions that explore the connections between memory, history and the ruptures of the present, appealing to collectors, informed art lovers and curious minds alike.
The gallery represents both emerging and established artists, whom it supports with rigour throughout the development of their recognition.
Gallery artists
M'barek Bouhchichi, Mauro Pinto, Ymane Fakhir, Jean Servais Somian
