TRAVERSEE DES MONDES. ARTMEDECINE EN AFRIQUE

Description

“Crossing Worlds. ArtMédecine in Africa “combines aesthetic and ethnographic approach lighting on therapeutic practices in Africa. Michel Leiris open reflection on African aesthetic concepts in terms of Western culture. Ivan Bargna addresses this same kind of questions in another way, more contemporary and shows the strength of the African cosmogony lines. Andras Zempleni attempts to describe the social uses of the disease in Africa and that nothing is fixed and immutable. Françoise Grange shown through the arts to heal a pluralistic medicine in Africa. Marc Coulibaly described by following the “way of the masks” in Burkina Faso their role and function in healing rituals and purification of places and the body and shows that the mask plays a key role in the therapy of individuals and the management of their company. Alain Epelboin studied healers discovered objects collected by the ethnomédecin in the garbage dumps of Senegal. Malam Zoubeirou painter and marbout Maradi (Niger) embodies the diviner–healer and artist.