Mariane Ibrahim
Zohra Opoku , Allemagne / Ghana
I Have Arisen...Part 2
Zohra Opoku, I Have Arisen...Part 2, 2023. Photo Aurélien Mole. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim
Mariane Ibrahim is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Zohra Opoku entitled, I Have Arisen…Part 2, the artists first show in Paris, on view from March 24th to June 3rd, 2023. The exhibition will unveil the continuation of her series The Myths of Eternal Life, following the debut show in Chicago in 2022, Part 1.
In the chapters of The Myths of Eternal Life, Zohra is a curator of memory, where she makes literal, material. She is interested in stitching the past into the present, such as rendering the contours of a series of carved faces in thread next to a screen-printed, photographed collage of the stone originals so we no longer know which one is artifact or reference.
The Myths of Eternal Life borrows its structure and its language from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, an ancient text which provides instruction of preparation for the afterlife. The pearled brass pieces scattered through these works represent her, melted down and carried on the wind, where, inevitably, she becomes suspended in bare tree branches, or settles over the screenprint of her face in profile, adorning her past embodiments with their eventual, godly manifestations; marking herself for eternal life.
Exhibition from March 24 to June 03, 2023.
The gallery
Seven years after launching her namesake gallery in Seattle, Mariane Ibrahim moved the space to Chicago in 2019. In September 2021, the gallery opened its inaugural European space in Paris and in 2023 it opened a third space in Mexico city. The gallery has hosted acclaimed exhibitions, with a founding focus on the African diaspora, from leading and emerging artists including Amoako Boafo, Yukimasa Ida, Peter Uka and Zohra Opoku. The gallery has worked with global renowned institutions and have had an international presence at art fairs with acclaimed and prize-winning presentations.
Gallery artists
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze • Raphaël Barontini • Amoako Boafo • M. Florine Démosthène • Patrick Eugène • Jerrell Gibbs • Maïmouna Guerresi • Mwangi Hutter • Yukimasa Ida • Ayana V. Jackson • Clotilde Jiménez • Shannon T. Lewis • Sergio Lucena • No Martins • Ian Mwesiga • Carmen Neely • Zohra Opoku • Peter Uka
Galerie sélectionnée par Alicia Knock et Camille Morineau
