CIMARRON

Masquerade and freedom


Charles FRÉGER



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Ana RUIZ : Author
Ishmael REED: Prefacier

Cimarron (after Bretonnes and Yokainoshima) is the 3rd part of a photographic series started in 2013 by Charles Fréger. From the southern United States to Brazil, the artist draws up an inventory of the masquerades practiced by the descendants of African slaves, thereby celebrating the memory of their peers and their unique cultures.
African, indigenous and colonial cultures, caught up in the vertigo of a syncretic movement, are intertwined with masks, make-up, costumes, ornaments and accessories. More than ever before, the masquerade is here a territory where one community is confronted with another, a space where the relationship with the oppressor is replayed, where the relationship with the oppressor is reinvented either to mimic it or to reverse it, always to subvert it.



Editor : ACTES SUD
Publication year : 2019
Number of pages : 320
Language : French
ISBN 13 : 9782330117344