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Carla Acevedo-Yates, new resident at Édouard Glissant House
Congratulations and huge welcome to Carla Acevedo-Yates [Photo], new resident at Maison Édouard Glissant / Édouard Glissant House, from June 4th 2026. Carla Acevedo-Yates is a curator and researcher, working with contemporary art of the Americas from a transcultural perspective, with a particular focus on the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. She is on the artistic team
Exhibition ‘The Earth, the Water and the Winds…’ at New York (US)
Exhibition opening ‘The Earth, The Fire, The Water, and The Winds – For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant’, the first US exhibition of the Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant’s (1928–2011) personal art collection. Exhibition reveals a lesser-known dimension of Glissant’s life: his vision for a museum. He conceived of it not as a monument, but as
Exhibition ‘Nous les pacotilleuses / Pacotille Experts’ at Lyon (FR)
Exhibition opening ‘Nous les pacotilleuses / Pacotille Experts’ , an art project initiative, inspired by Édouard Glissant, Raphaël Confiant and Aline Pénitot, dedicated to exploring artistic practices that relate to comings and goings, multiple affiliations, stories of origins – imagined or adopted – mobilities, agency, fabrications, circulation of goods, debt, smuggling, artifacts, colonial history, waterways, plants, languages, Africa, the
Azzedine Saleck, new resident at Édouard Glissant House
Congratulations and huge welcome to Azzedîne Saleck [Photo], new resident at Maison Édouard Glissant / Édouard Glissant House, from Sept. 15/16th 2025. Azzedine Saleck, born in 1987, Paris (FR), is a poet and artist of Mauritanian and American descent. Raised between Mauritania and France, he explores walls and doors as physical and symbolic barriers, in relation to migration,
Exhibition ‘The Earth, the Water and the Winds…’ at Sao Paulo (BR)
Exhibition opening ‘The Earth, The Fire, The Water, and The Winds – For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant’, the first ever international exhibition presenting the Édouard Glissant Art Collection in relation with new art generations. At Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (BR).From September 2nd 2025 (vernissage) through January 25th 2026. Free entrance. With more than 50
Rayana Rayo and José Eduardo Ferreira Santos, new residents at Édouard Glissant House
Congratulations and huge welcome to Rayana Rayo and José Eduardo Ferreira Santos [Photo], new residents at Maison Édouard Glissant / Édouard Glissant House, from August 5th, 2025. Rayana Rayo is a visual artist from Recife (BR), with a practice diving into abstraction, guided by intuition and emotion. Her paintings bring together feelings like joy and sadness, mystery and grief –