Chloe Quenum

Episode 13Chloe Quenum
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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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Chloe Quenum

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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Irène
Chloé QuenumIrène, 2018
200 x 300cm
Booker
Chloé QuenumBooker, 2024
120 x 80cm
Teardrops
Délivrances
Rain
Chloé QuenumRain, 2024
120 x 80cm
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Chloé Quenum
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Chloé Quenum
B.1983, French

hloé Quenum’s work addresses questions of visibility, mixed-race and transmission through the prism of anthropological and historical research. The strategies she uses by moving, transforming and reshaping forms and mundane objects allow her to interrogate the idea of displacement and feeling of belonging. She questions the effect a shift in context produces and thus her artworks’ capacity to generate new stories. Chloé Quenum wa representing Benin at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 alongside artists Ishola Akpo, Moufouli Bello et Romuald Hazoumè, curated by Azu Nwagbogu. ...

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