Mariane Ibrahim

I love to be in that city and to walk around.

And I actually feel beyond safe.

I feel that I'm really part of the city because it's really not charged historically.

Even a black person and any black person will confirm that walking in the city, it gives you a feeling of sort of a belonging, but you walk with a non-political body as opposed to in Europe or in the US.

Being a foreigner there,

Yeah, gives me joy, you know, and gives me some sort of a rest compared to, you know, what we're dealing with other countries and other parts of the world.

You're not invisible, but you're really part of the ecosystem.

You're part of the landscape.

So the space is a space from the 19th century, from during the time of the Maximilian regime.

I sort of have a space that looks very much like a French-Osmanian gallery.

And it gives me also a lot of flexibility.

We do three exhibitions a year, which is different, which is something that I would like to do in other spaces.

They have the slow fashion.

I would like to do slow shows, you know.

That's the dream.

In Mexico, we've done exhibition that was centered around the arts from Afro-Brazilian artists, exhibition with the young French painters.

Clotilde Jimenez was the first exhibition because it's also based there.

We've done a show, Salad More, we've done a show at Amorco.

And each time the reception is just amazing.

And it's a window.