Parte Incognita
march-april 2014
Galerie Laure Roynette
20 rue de Thorigny . 75003 Paris .
For their new collaboration, the Galerie Laure Roynette presented, from March till April, 2014, Anne Cindric's new works in a personal entitled exhibition " Parte incognita "
Julie Crenn, doctor in history and criticism of arts, collaborator for Art press, write about this exhibition :
" We tell us, and here is the truth, that it is disturbed, confused, decayed everywhere, everything in madness, the blood, the wind. We see it and live him it. But it is the whole world which speaks to you, by so many gagged voices. Wherever you turn, it is sadness. But you turn nevertheless. […] those who hold meeting here always come . from one "over there", from the extent of the world, and here they are decided to bring this here the fragile knowledge there which they dragged."
Edouard Glissant – Traité du Tout-Monde (1997)
In the continuation of a pictorial reflection based on the splendor and the figures of the power, Anne Cindric presents a new series of paintings where the notions of cartography, relation and of mondialité are introduced. So, she takes back the motives and the history of Dutch wax. Printed and multicolored fabrics carry a story connected to the colonialism and to the beginnings of the globalization. In the XIXth century, the Dutch people work out fabrics close to batiks, developed to flood and conquer the Indonesian market. A project which is going to turn out to be a failure. The Indonesians preferred the authenticity to the reproducibility of their crafts. The traders filter in then on western Africa where fabrics knew and know even today a striking success. From 1950's, period of the decolonization, Dutch wax carries a new function because they are made the vectors of the Pan-Africanism and the diverse propagandas. On shirts, loincloths, dresses and bubus, people raise portraits and slogans of kings, liberators, martyrs, dictators, colonists, hero and other national and continental icons. Fabrics become critical, political and militant weapons. An iconographic strategy which Anne Cindric reinterprets in her paintings. The male faces figures embodying the power are replaced by the portraits of medieval favorites, queens and First Ladies: queen Elizabeth II of England, Jackie Kennedy and Michelle Obama. Women in the limited powers, the status of which oscillates between the action and the representation. "