Chloe Quenum
Fractured self
Imagine yourself as a mosaic—each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.
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Chloé Quenum’s artwork Une sieste à Porto-Novo evokes a moment of quiet reflection through the symbolic presence of a woven mat. This simple object becomes a powerful metaphor for the diasporic condition, expressing a sense of in-between belonging and cultural anchoring. Presented as part of the Wonder, Wander exhibition, the work adopts a fragmentary language to navigate themes of memory, identity, and the entanglement of personal and collective histories. Quenum invites us to consider hybridity as both burden and strength — and to reflect on how one carries the notion of “home” across distance and displacement.
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