PODCAST
Africa is the Future:
Echoes and Responses
Michèle Magema,
Cécilia Bracmort,
Nicolas Premier
In this new episode of SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art’s podcast series, Michèle Magema speaks with Nicolas Premier and Cécilia Bracmort, the artist and curator of the exhibition Africa is the Future: Echoes and Responses. Together, they revisit the exhibition, presented at SBC from September 13 to November 9, 2024, and delve into the themes at the heart of the artist’s practice.
To accompany this episode, a text is available for reading: the original, in French, published in RACAR in 2022, along with an excerpt of its English translation by Nils Lövgren Boulianne. This text is discussed in the episode and serves as a valuable reference for the ideas explored in the podcast.
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
MICHÈLE MAGEMA
Michèle Magema is a French-Congolese visual artist. Her interdisciplinary practice — including video, performance, photography, drawing, and installation — explores narratives and the memory of colonial histories, oral transmissions, and intersectional and decolonial feminisms.
Co-founder of the USANII space, she is also a curator and educator. She is currently a professor at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques at UQAM, where she is pursuing a practice-based PhD.
CÉCILIA BRACMORT
Cécilia Bracmort is a French-Canadian artist and curator living in Montreal. Her Caribbean heritage influences her artistic and curatorial practices, which focus on notions of identity - both individual and collective - memory and history. As an art matchmaker, Bracmort connects people and builds bridges between themes such as ecology, trauma and mythology. In this way, she encourages people to think outside the box and see the world in a new light.
NICOLAS PREMIER
Beau Gomez is a lens-based artist whose practice is informed by ideas, challenges and conversations around cross-cultural narratives as they relate to positions of community and otherness. He is interested in activating storytelling as a vehicle for illustrating memory, an operative point of tension and affect, and an exercise in bearing witness. His work is grounded in image-making as a conduit between individual and collective histories, giving permission to shared means of learning, nurturing and renewal.
© Émilie Tournevache
© Manoucheka Lachérie
© Nicolas Premier
CREDITS
PRODUCED BY SBC GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART, 2025
The music excerpts on this podcast are taken from Nicolas Premier's video work Africa is the Future (2020).
THIS PROJECT WAS MADE THANKS TO THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF:
