Exhibition

Since 2022, Roxane Mbanga has been building NOIRES like a dream house. An itinerant project nourished by her Guadeloupean, Cameroonian and Ivorian heritage, and by stories collected during her travels in Africa and the Caribbean, it now unfolds at MansA in an original version, conceived in situ.

The Grand Salon imagined by the artist becomes the centerpiece of this house: a living space, inhabited by voices, presences, silences and memories. Through original creations – illustrations, paintings, sculptures, textiles, furniture, and objects with emotional significance – Roxane Mbanga proposes a place where everyone can find refuge and tell their own stories.

At the heart of this installation, door sculptures inspired by traditional African and West Indian architecture open up passages between heritages and identities. With no hierarchy of values, each object finds its place and composes an indissociable whole: a total, generous work that affirms that there is nothing to give up, that we are whole and in our place.

The exhibition will be open to visitors from 4 to 26 October at MansA. Admission is free, but reservations are required: individual visitors can book 45-minute slots, up to 3 places per reservation, while groups are invited to contact MansA.