"(On the (de)composition of the book: the majority comes from what we wove together throughout the exhibition, a long study of the mangrove based on the tale. Each chapter is introduced by a series of ideas and tools spun over the course of our exchanges and discussions. These ideas very often begin with a rereading of the concept and practice of the Relation. At the intersection, a few lines from the tale, that have been exploded so as to recompose a kind of epistle, a summary—which is not a totality like an all-encompassing myth but, rather, a forgotten, ousted, whole. Finally, the book is divided into three parts: Crab, Sanbras, Aparahiwas.)"
«–Mais le monde est une mangrovité.» is a hybrid object, part exhibition catalogue, part tale, part poetry collection, part critical and philosophical essay. It was devised by Chris Cyrille and Sarah Matia Pasqualetti, following on from an eponymous exhibition that featured work by Minia Biabiany, Julia Gault, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Ludovic Nino. Though it takes the exhibition as its starting point, this catalogue moves away from it, and to this end an invitation was extended to a number of authors: Estelle Coppolani, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Olivier Marbœuf, and Dénètem Touam Bona. Each of them develops a thinking around the figure of mangrovité. Using different texts the curators, along with Cindy Olohou and her glossary, accompany the reader throughout this sequence of images and narratives.
This book benefits from the precious support of the Mangrovity Art Fund, the Centre national des arts plastiques, the Édouard Glissant Art Fund and Galerie Sator.
