Mariane Ibrahim

We absolutely need to win the price.

And I think there was a manifestation and hard work that we put into place and we really, really wanted to win the price.

And we won.

And I was very reassured.

I wouldn't say validated, but I was happy about it.

I was content about it because that was going to open other possibilities and doors to reciprocate and to keep pushing and inviting artists to come with me in terms of creating a memorable display.

I'm not a very loud person.

I don't go out there on the social media and scream.

I scream in different ways, you know.

I love that.

And I like that sort of a silence, self-censored approach.

But in that moment of the art fair, mostly the Armory Fair, which was my fair by excellence, it was a place that I'd love to come back to, I did five consecutive presentations of Black women artists.

What was very natural to me then doesn't seem now, you know, because I was advocating for that sort of a visibility and acknowledgement of the contribution of Black women artists in the art world.

And yet they're still not in the same sort of status as other groups and genders.

And so for me, it was very much into pushing myself as well.

And through them, I'm also, you know, expressing

the status and the monopoly of a certain group of galleries.

It's very rare that the mission and the ambition of the artist is far from mine.

It's very fusional.

And I am often using the voice of the artist to push my voice and vice versa, you know?