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oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:muzee.be:MZ000294 2026-05-05T19:57:31Z institution:muzee_kunstmuseum_aan_zee creator:plagie_gbaguidi creator:gbaguidi_plagie period:21ste_eeuw period:21th_century

http://muzee.be/collection/work/data/MZ000294 oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:muzee.be:MZ000294 http://muzee.be/collection/work/id/MZ000294 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/Entity/e22-man-made-object/version-6.1 Man-Made Object 320000002 schilderij 320000516 schilderijen Icon in Progress - Time El Mundo sans le corps Mu.ZEE, Kunstmuseum aan zee Mu.ZEE, Art Museum by the Sea MZ000294 In depot Pélagie Gbaguidi noemt zichzelf een hedendaagse 'griot'. In de traditionele West-Afrikaanse cultuur is een griot een verhalenverteller die als rol heeft om de mondelinge geschiedenis van het dorp door te geven aan de volgende generatie. Een griot is dus een soort bemiddelaar of tussenpersoon tussen de vorige generaties en vandaag. In haar tekeningen en schilderijen vertelt Pélagie Gbaguidi over de koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis. De vele verhalen over onderdrukking worden in de officiële geschiedenis vaak omzeild en vertekend. Ze wil die stereotypen doorbreken en zich verzetten tegen het ‘vergeten’. Ze reconstrueert de archieven en geschiedenissen, en geeft die kennis door via haar tekeningen en schilderijen. Vaak gebruikt ze haar lichaam om verf of pigment op het doek aan te brengen. ‘Each told story can be a gift for another’. I started the series of Icon in Progress in 2015, after being faced with the collective trauma in my last painting (DansleventreduserpentDanhomè - Divine Comedy). I confronted my own body to react to a horrific archive (seen at the Tervuren Museum after years of consultations). Some paintings are related to the previously described archives where the bodies were murdered. Then my imagination worked to rebuild them, clean up the toxic iconography with a new carnal approach of bodies. At first, I left traces of my body on the canvas with brown pigment. The prints then became the beginning of a narrative. I asked myself about the concept of Time and Trauma. A question: has there been an interruption of the collective trauma ? What if the gender war was a taboo? Since we talk about gender equality in the 21st century, should it even be a debate ? One painting evokes a woman who carries her fallopian like a flag... In a other one, I asked myself when did the Western world decided to take the lion as a symbol of nationalism? In this painting, the feline's tracks appear as questions of identity/identities. El Mundo sans le corps questions the powerful notion of the body today; how the virtual nature of our lives consumes the sacred. It provokes questions as to what happens to the physical body as carrier of memories, and propels the artist to become the teller of stories. 260 x 165 cm (hxb) hoogte cm 260 breedte cm 165 production 320003187 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16671656 https://viaf.org/viaf/80311712 https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/411077 Gbaguidi, Pélagie Pélagie Gbaguidi Gbaguidi, Pélagie 1965 2015 2015 2015 320001416 21ste eeuw 21th century acrylverf en pigment op doek © Pélagie Gbaguidi - http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://muzee.be/collection/work/data/MZ000294 320006067 http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300133025 Item Mu.ZEE, Kunstmuseum aan zee http://muzee.be https://resourcespace.muzee.be/iiif/3/3386/manifest.json IIIF Manifest https://resourcespace.muzee.be/iiif/2/public%2F3386.tif thumbnail 92f5a0a2283c8fa2f023431e6d5ba4ab http://muzee.be/collection/work/representation/MZ000294 http://muzee.be/collection/work/representation/MZ000294