French street artist Shuck One pays tribute to Black history at Pompidou Centre in Paris

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An installation by French street artist Shuck One is honouring Black historical figures and key moments in France’s past as part of the 'Black Paris; exhibition at the Pompidou Centre.

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00:00With this installation REGENERATION, I wanted to retrace the memory of black people who

00:27created the Paris Noir and who, in a way, are pioneers and pioneers who have led us

00:32in different fields, artistic, intellectual or other, and a way for me to honor them.

00:38I would also talk about the Black Atlantic, the Black Caraïbes, since these characters

00:42are both American and on the other side of things.

00:45And what was really important in this installation for me, it's the different components

00:50and the different artistic, intellectual and food stratifications in the archive

00:56to be able to compose this installation not only in archive, but also in painting and in volume.

01:02At the end of the 70s, with my grandparents in Pointe-à-Pitre, I discovered graffiti,

01:27this famous intellectual poet who formed a triangle with Senghor, Césaire and Gontrand Damas.

01:35And finally, when I arrived in Paris in 1984, I discovered graffiti in another form,

01:39artistic and vindictive.

01:41But the two things have given me the foundation of all this, and above all, the fundamental,

01:46as Gontrand Damas says, is that it allowed me to discover my history, America, the Caraïbes,

01:53slavery, colonization, departmentalization, then I would say South America.

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