“J'ai Deux Amours...” ends today!! It is the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s @marianeibrahimgallery new space in Paris on Avenue Matignon. The title pays homage to Josephine Baker's iconic song "J'ai deux amours”, (“...mon pays et Paris.") ("I have two loves: my country and Paris.") The group exhibition is an anthem for love and connectivity, emphasizing diverse cultural backgrounds as being sacred, especially amidst the rise of cultural resistance and the effect of the recent health crisis. The two loves I have are Life and Death. I have never felt stronger about it as both stands for an endless circle of a beginning and an end. While I was contemplating death through my new body of work, which is a healing process, I learned to embrace my own life by accepting death into it to overcome the fear of it. My son Junior, who is named after my late father and so for carries the spirit of my father, like in Ghanaian beliefs, everything is interconnected and our ancestors live amongst us. A poetic example from my current research into Ancient Egypt mythology shines a graceful light onto my new thinking: The great sun god Re was thought to grow old each day and to die each night, and then to be born or resurrected each day at dawn. As Eric Hornung has stressed, the mortality of Egyptian gods ’enables them to become young again and again, and to escape from the disintegration that is the inevitable product of time.’ With🤍 @ruby_onyinyechi_amanze @raphael_barontini @amoakoboafo @florinedemosthene @jerrellgibbs @maimounaguerresi @mwangihutter @yukimasaida @ayanavjackson @clotildejimenez @lolas_venus @sergiolucena.artist @ianmwesiga @peter_uka #marianeibrahimgallery #africancontemporaryart #blackartist #avenuematignon #blackexcellence #blackwomanempowerment