For years, Taysir Batniji has explored the theme of exile through works combining photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and installation. His work, marked by impermanence and fragility, oscillates between the visible and invisible, the concrete and abstract. Although tending toward a universal dimension, his work remains intimately linked to Palestinian history and tragedy. The exhibition at the Palazzina dei Giardini Ducali traces this poetic and painful exploration of memory, traces, and absence. Inspired in particular by Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian artist conceives of “inhabiting time” as a response to the impossibility of inhabiting space.

Exhibition curator : Daniele De Luigi.

Benin round trip. Perspectives on Dahomey in 1930 offers a reinterpretation of the films and photographs produced during a mission by the Archives de la Planète led by Catholic missionary Francis Aupiais and cameraman Frédéric Gadmer in Dahomey (now Benin) from January to May 1930. An immersion in the form of a Franco-Beninese dialogue that questions the way non-European cultures are viewed, in a context of colonial rule and the birth of ethnography.

Exhibition curators: Julien Faure-Conorton and David-Sean Thomas.

The Fondation H in Antananarivo presents Correspondances, a solo exhibition by French-Beninese artist Roméo Mivekannin. Through embroidered textile works and a monumental metal installation, created with Madagascan artisans, the artist explores colonial narratives, spiritual memories, and the exchanges between France, Benin, and Madagascar. Inspired by colonial postcards, the exhibition engages in a dialogue between past and present, memory and creation, archives and acts of reparation.
A rich and inclusive public program accompanies the exhibition, with meetings, workshops, performances, and activities suitable for all audiences.