Mariane Ibrahim

some art that could connect that I could connect with was a bit deconstructive of my personality because it means then I am not I don't exist there I'm not out there there are no artistic voices that are able to guide me and this world and today what we are going through in this time we need

Art more than ever.

Art saves our souls.

So you could live a life, you can physically live a life removed from art.

But what you would lose, I think, would be a sense of humanity and empathy, because that's what...

the art does to the soul.

It gives you a relationship to the self that is more sensitive, I would say, to what is happening to the world.

And I can see how we are enabling with all of these spaces, we galleries, because one amazing aspect of the galleries is we're free, you know.

We are, on my end, very inclusive.

So I see a great

change, especially in France and in Paris, where I see a younger audience coming to the gallery and they feel reconnected to some stories, they feel reconnected to their ancestry, they feel reconnected to their own self, you know, and I think that's a very responsible attitude to have.

And I'm very blessed and grateful to be doing what I'm doing and being and have the energy

and the freedom to present the work independently of any other reactions.

And in fact, we have created two bookstores in Mexico City and in Paris, which is an extension of the program and allows a deeper sort of a research, a deeper literacy in the work that we're doing.

And they're a bookstore with a very strong focus on Afro-descendants.

I'd like to come to London, so I will call you on that.

I would love to.

Invitation is open in all of our spaces.