SISSI club
Marseille
emerging program
SISSI club is a gallery based in Marseille. Established in April 2019, it is run by two curators with a background in art history, Elise Poitevin and Anne Vimeux, and is joined by the graphic design of Marie-Mam Sai Bellier. It first opened as a project space dedicated to supporting emerging artists, questioning the geographic dynamics of contempory art. In 2022, SISSI club embraced the gallery model to enhance its relationship with a group of represented artists. The approach adopted emphasises personal emporwernment through reseach and fiction, and explores the politics of space and bodies through decolonial, queer, inclusive and ecological positions.
www.sissi-club.com
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Artist at Swab:
Mailys Moanda
Gallery run by Anne Vimeux and Elise Poitevin
Mailys Moanda
Fly kisses!, 2024
oil on canvas
38x55 cm
For SWAB 2024, SISSI club present a solo show by artist Mailys Moanda with a body of work produced over two years, as a fragmented narrative to be reconstructed and re-screened. Through her practice of painting and sculpture, she explores notions of intimacy, the self and the body, giving an almost performative aspect to her work. Through this acidic story-telling, referencing bad painting and a 1980s nanar, Maïlys Moanda questions the place of the black body within it, and reveals a form of melancholy, even deep sadness, as she recomposes what she calls «her recollection», commenting on her memory, her experiences.