October 18, 2015 — January 17, 2016
CRAC Alsace
Altkirch, France

Solo exhibition
Curated by Elfi Turpin

Multimedia installation composed by video projection and both large and small scale objects. The exhibition, titled “Alma-bluco”, refers to a specific cultural belief on the transience of spirits. First acknowledged in São Tomé and Prince, the term was coined into a new body of work with a strong focus on the celebration of fictional characters.

This is what springs to mind every time I get ready to talk about Alma-Bluco, a Musa paradisiaca solo exhibition: a masking sentence, an enigmatic injunction, almost a spell, which so totally informs the genesis and the contours of this exhibition that it leaves room for not a single other word.

And yet things remain to be said: (...) for some months now, Musa paradisiaca has been working in a bakery (...). The bakery turns out to be the beating heart of a human activity that takes place when all the others stop: a place where a mysterious nocturnal force is capable of creating food. One evening the baker explained to them why large animals sleep standing up:

"When an animal lies down, its internal organs change place, causing suffocation. So an animal that falls over can never get up again”.

Elfi Turpin