For Le Nouveau Printemps, Tarek Lakhrissi and Josèfa Ntjam combine their talents in the Carmelite chapel. Using the venue and its history as their starting point, the duo has composed a space of communion for their respective and shared practices: making the marginalized visible and filling the gaps in our collective memories.

Combining real and poetic images, the installation pays tribute to the dead and the living. Interactive and generous, it is as much an outcome as a beginning. The lexicons of the two artists connect, as their visions entwine and resonate in this sacred and ambivalent space. The representations of the classical paintings are celebrated yet questioned.

Josèfa Ntjam develops an artistic practice that combines mythologies, decolonial stories, and influences from digital and sci-fi spheres. The artist draws on politics, art, philosophy, ancestral cosmologies and music to superpose mythological narratives on images and archives of colonial history while integrating 3D models of marine creatures or statues from Western collections, and on photographs of the protagonists of independence struggles. Her works trigger associations that weave a vision in which memories
dialogue with a futuristic aesthetic.

Tarek Lakhrissi is an artist, poet, performer and filmmaker. He
creates works, such as images or sculptures that speak of desire,
love and the necessity of including figures and subjects that have so
far been excluded. From a children’s book to enigmatic sculptures, he
explores culture and art, playing with established hierarchies across
different media. Advertising, myths and cinema are as much his point
of reference as pop music or great poets, allowing an emancipatory
vision to delicately emerge.

Josèfa Ntjam and Tarek Lakhrissi invite us to reflect on our heritage in a world in perpetual transformation, while also encouraging us to be guided by the magic of forms, colors and words.

Produced by Le Nouveau Printemps.
With the support of Monuments de Toulouse, Toulouse city hall.