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'''Michèle Magema''' is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of Congo]] in 1977. She emigrated to Paris, France in 1984, where she currently resides.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)|journal=Signs|date=Summer 2013|volume=38|issue=4|url=http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005/}}</ref>
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In 2002 she received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy. In addition to being a resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the ''Global Feminisms'' exhibition at the [[Brooklyn Museum]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Muller|first1=Dena|title=Reviewed Works: Global Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin|journal=Signs|date=Winter 2008|volume=33|issue=2|pages=471-474|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521560}}</ref> the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.

One of her most well-known works is ''Oyé Oyé'', (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s [[Mobutu Sese Seko]] overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michèle Magema|url=http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301|publisher=doual'art|accessdate=30 May 2015}}</ref>


Michèle Magema is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of Congo]], in 1977
She emigrated to [[Paris|Paris,]] [[France]], in 1984, where she currently resides.
In 2002, she received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy
In addition to being a resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition.
Her work has been exhibited in the Global Feminisms Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden
One of her most well-known works is Oyé Oyé, (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.
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http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521560

http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301

http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301


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Revision as of 21:38, 30 May 2015

Michèle Magema is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1977. She emigrated to Paris, France in 1984, where she currently resides.[1]

In 2002 she received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy. In addition to being a resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the Global Feminisms exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.

One of her most well-known works is Oyé Oyé, (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)". Signs. 38 (4). Summer 2013.
  2. ^ Muller, Dena (Winter 2008). "Reviewed Works: Global Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin". Signs. 33 (2): 471–474.
  3. ^ "Michèle Magema". doual'art. Retrieved 30 May 2015.