In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking. This edition of MOMENTA aims to open up multiple perspectives for experimentation and speculation on the nature, uses, and production of missing images. In Praise of the Missing Image explores both contemporary challenges in relation to the image and the current consequences of the complex dynamics involved in constructing narratives. Which stories are told, how, and by whom?

This publication presents a text by the guest curator, the 22 exhibitions in the Biennale, and an exclusive series of graphic scores by the artist Lou Sheppard. In their original essays, the authors Françoise Vergès and Yaniya Lee enrich and broaden the reflections inherent to Marie-Ann Yemsi’s curatorial proposition: Vergès wonders how to make the narratives of “missing images” heard in the image, and Lee suggests that we move away from representation and, instead, embrace alternative methodologies for liberation.

Guest curator

Marie-Ann Yemsi

Authors

Yaniya Lee, Françoise Vergès, Marie-Ann Yemsi

Artists

Iván Argote, Raphaël Barontini, Raven Chacon, Gabrielle Goliath, Maureen Gruben, Anique Jordan, Joyce Joumaa, Martin Akwiranoron Loft, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Caroline Mauxion, Na Mira, Niap, Josèfa Ntjam, Myriam Omar Awadi, Frida Orupabo, OK Pedersen, Paul Seesequasis, Lou Sheppard, Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop – The Anonymous Project, Sanaz Sohrabi, Paula Valero Comín, Anouk Verviers

Languages

Disponible en français et en anglais

Publishers

Co-édition par MOMENTA / Kerber Verlag

Reference

978-2-9822179-1-1 (MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain)

Reference

978-3-7356-1048-5 (Kerber Verlag)

Number of pages

132

Publication date

2025