'Constantly people are asking you to choose: What are you? Are you French, are you African? I refuse to do that. I don't want to choose. I want to be everything.'
explores the lesser-seen side of famous cities and countries, Ibrahim joined him and artist Raphaël Barontini for a home-cooked meal in Barontini's studio in Saint-Denis, a suburb, or"banlieue" of Paris. McCoy said in the episode that he had noticed"a distinct lack of Black and Brown perspectives" in the capital's famed museums.
Though Ibrahim is a pioneer in bringing contemporary African diasporic art to Paris, she believes that others will soon follow. Influenced by Keïta, Ibrahim's first ever gallery show in Seattle featured the work of his peer Malick Sidibé. She reflected:"That image affected me to a point to want to start a gallery."This sumptuous, highly stylized painting by Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka is one of Ibrahim's favorites because it relishes in the simple pleasure of beauty.
"Every single time I look at that video, it just gives me an energy that I can't explain -- an energy to destroy, and an energy to restore, to fix, to change," Ibrahim said."It just gives you something that brings joy and brings pain with the same intensity."The photographs of Italian Senegalese multimedia artist Maimouna Guerressi, who will be exhibiting at Ibrahim's Chicago location later this year, are tinged with mystery, influenced by Islamic mysticism.
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