A historian by training and a member of the Myop photo agency, Philippe Guionie presents a work on memory and “constructed identities.” He writes, through his portraits, “a human story written in time, a story of both shared memory and the present.”

“Africa-America,” his latest work, will be exhibited from October 2011 to January 2012 in Toulouse and Paris: at the Galerie Château d’Eau in Toulouse until 31 December, 2011, and at the Galerie Polka in Paris from November 8, 2011, to January 30, 2012.

These exhibitions will be accompanied by the publication of a collection with text by Christian Caujolle and Jean-Christophe Ruffin, a 12-minute film (featuring François Tisseyre), and conferences in Toulouse with Christian Caujolle and Jean-Marc Lacabe, the director of Château d’Eau.

These communities are all in search of their African roots, which they barely know, if at all.

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Exhibition

Africa – America
until December 31, 2011

Le Château d’Eau
1, place Laganne
+33 (0)561770 94 0

Publication

Africa – America
text by Christian Caujolle et Jean-Christophe Rufin
Diaphane, 230 pp., 29 x 29 cm
French, English and Spanish