Circuits of Blackness

Writting by Serubiri Moses

« Cédrine Scheidig focuses in her portraits, landscape photographs, and still lifes on the everyday life of Black people in French overseas territories, especially Guiana, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. She is particularly interested in questions pertaining to identity formation and belonging. As a starting point for interpreting Scheidig’s work, Serubiri Moses takes zouk— a musical style originating in Guiana and enjoying influences from the French Caribbean and Africa. He explains how the artist lends visibility and possible narratives to her own, Caribbean-influenced form of “Black experience.” She thus works to counteract established Caribbean visual narratives that focus on an exotic paradise oriented primarily to the landscape: “In her pursuit of the circuits of Blackness, from Cayenne to Paris, Scheidig reveals a strategy that relates to the origin and movement of Black culture across geography and history.»

Searching for Cayenne
Cédrine Scheidig asks where the history of the Caribbean begins and ends
writting by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

A independent jury comprised of Anna Goldwater Alexander (Director of Photography, WIRED), Bindi Vora (Visual Artist and Curator, Autograph), Holly Roussell (Curator, UCCA), Taous Dahmani (Curator, Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles & Editor, The Eyes Magazine) assigned the €5,000 PhMuseum 2023 Women Photographers Grant 1st Prize to Cédrine Scheidig for her project Les Mornes, Le Feu (The Dunes, The Fire).

For the first part of the winter season, the MEP Studio presents the work of the young French- Caribbean photographer Cédrine Scheidig, winner of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents in 2021.

Nominated among this year BJP’s Ones to Watch by curator Taous Dahmani. Article written by Flossie Skeleton. Available online and in print.

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