Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro

Hamedine Kane, Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and film director, lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. Through his practice, Kane frequents borders, not as signs and factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation, as a central element in the conception of itinerant identity. After ten years of exile in Europe, his practice now focuses on the themes of memory and heritage. This aspect of his work is taking shape with the research project The School of Mutants. In Kane’s works, these themes intermingle with the past and the future, transgressing and irrigating the limits of space and time. In 2020, Kane participated to the Taipei Biennial, the Casablanca Biennale, and various exhibitions as part of the Africa2020 season in France. His film The Blue House, which had its world premiere at IDFA in Amsterdam in November 2020, received a special mention from the jury.

Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro is an artist, environmental engineer, and curator. His work develops land-based strategies that explore communizing and ecologies of care. In 2018 he co-initiated, The School of Mutants, an artistic investigation into land struggles and political utopia in Dakar, with exhibitions and programs in Dakar, Oslo, Taipei, Nantes. He is lecturer at École Centrale Paris, curator at NA Project, associate researcher for the European program “From Conflict to Conviviality” at Ensad Paris, and researcher at Unbewitch Finance Lab. He has had curatorial collaborations with Inland (Madrid), Institut Kunst (Basel), Technê Institute (Buffalo), Science Museum (London), and Documenta (13) (Kassel).