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06/03/2026
🧵 Opening Soon: Threads of Kinship
📍 He Art Museum, Shunde, China
🗓️ Mar 16 – Jun 30, 2026
⭐ Official Opening: March 23, 2026, 3 pm; HEM Lobby (1F)
KADIST and the He Art Museum present the second edition of 'Threads of Kinship,' bringing together 44 artists exploring histories of care, autonomy, and chosen kinship through material practices.
Building on its first iteration at KADIST Paris, this presentation expands the dialogue with the legacy of Guangdong’s Self-Comb Sisters—women who chose collective life through silk production as a path to independence.
Curated by Shona Mei Findlay, Yuan Fuca, and Marie Martraire (KADIST) in conversation with the He Art Museum curatorial team.
Artworks by Chen Jialu & Self-Comb Sisters • Wang Ye • Bayrol Jiménez • Xyza Cruz Bacani • Hu Yinping • Subash Thebe Limbu • Santiago Borja • Tarik Kiswanson
Learn more about the exhibition: https://kadist.org/program/threads-of-kinship-shunde/
27/02/2026
To celebrate the release of Meriem Bennani’s () new feature film ‘Bouchra’ (2025), we’re looking back at ‘FLY’ (2016), a video installation in the 🎬✨
Originally commissioned for Bennani’s first solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, ‘FLY’ was conceived as an immersive, multi-projector environment inspired by the mosaic vision of a fly’s eye. In its single-channel form, the work unfolds through scenes shot in Bennani’s hometown of Rabat—family interviews, an open-air market, a wedding—reassembled through surreal digital manipulations.
An animated fruit fly guides us through the film, mischievously weaving through markets, medinas, and private celebrations. Moving between documentation and magical realism, 'FLY' constructs an augmented, non-linear universe that sharpens the contradictions and oddities of everyday life. 🦟
📷 Installation views of ‘Meriem Bennani: FLY’ at MoMA PS1, 2016. Image courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1. Photo by Pablo Enriquez.
'Defining Self-Sufficiency' (1990) is part of a series of self-portraits by Oladélé Ayiboyé Bamgboyé. Through layered images and multiple exposures, the artist blurs identity, gender, and time, creating a figure that both draws in and resists the viewer’s gaze. Rooted in the legacy of African studio portraiture, the work challenges stereotypes and the fetishization of the Black body, using photography as a space for self-definition and autonomy.
↗ Learn more: https://kadist.org/work/defining-self-sufficiency/
📷 Oladélé Ayiboyé Bamgboyé, Defining Self-Sufficiency (1990) | Courtesy the artist, KADIST collection
🫂 "Joy is really a place that makes us vibrate, that reminds us that we are human beings, that we’re not just enduring a world, that sometimes overwhelms us, that is beyond our control."
A look back at 'The Fabric of Resistance,' a conversation organized with the French media La Déferlante. Talk with Jeanne Friot and Kiyémis, moderated by Christelle Murhula.
📹 Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/gjBEXWPzAsk?si=n-dhGhfL-wAW5etb
🎥 Vincent Peugnet, Alexia Demars
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