FIRST EDITION – 2021/2022
BOSSALE
WORLD
Curated by the artist and researcher Eddy Firmin, Bossale World explore black artistic expressions inspired by migration and identity. For this first edition, Af-Flux Biennale pays particular attention to the doubly marginalized black art voices of Quebec: women and/or to the LGBTQIA+ communities

Synonymous of bodies overexploitation, the Bossale, slave born in Africa, is one of the fertilizing figures at the foundation of our globalized world. The bossale, and therefore the black body, signals a nomadic figure that participates to define the first transnational identities of our globalized world. For the 1st edition of AF-FLUX, 24 artists address significant issues: As bossale descendants, how do we articulate the world? What kind of decolonial dialogue arises from the encounter of artists from here and elsewhere? Moreover, how do these artists invest the contemporary art field ? What are their roots?
