- ABOMEY’S KINGDOM
- AFTERLIFE
- BACK-UP
- CLANDESTINO
- CRIMES & BANANAS
- COLONIAL TRYPTICH
- ESCAPE
- ESPLANADE
- FELIX
- GRETA
- MATEUSZ
- MULATA
- OLTION
- POLLINATION
- RODNA
- SHANGÔ & OSHUN
- STIGMÂTES
- SOFTNESS
- STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
- VIDESA
- VINCENT
- WHITE BUT BLACK
- YOVO
- تونس
YOVO
BENIN / 2023
Yovo : White man
Why do they call me that if I’m not white ?
I’m fair, but I am not just white.
This serie questions a term that defines everything that cannot be defined.
A catch-all word, to prevent debates about origins.
We talk about the different tribes, but the topic of the foreigner blood mixed with Beninese cannot be brought.
Yovo can be touched like an object, can be asked unwanted questions. Yovo rimes with money, education and wealth.
“Yovoooo ...” shout the kids in the streets. A word that fades in their mouth after realizing that the same person can talk their dialect.
Yovo ? A word with many meanings, but who is behind the label ? Not only white men, it seems.
Portraits of Métis in Benin
LINK TO EXHIBITION ︎
BENIN / 2023
Yovo : White man
Why do they call me that if I’m not white ?
I’m fair, but I am not just white.
This serie questions a term that defines everything that cannot be defined.
A catch-all word, to prevent debates about origins.
We talk about the different tribes, but the topic of the foreigner blood mixed with Beninese cannot be brought.
Yovo can be touched like an object, can be asked unwanted questions. Yovo rimes with money, education and wealth.
“Yovoooo ...” shout the kids in the streets. A word that fades in their mouth after realizing that the same person can talk their dialect.
Yovo ? A word with many meanings, but who is behind the label ? Not only white men, it seems.
Portraits of Métis in Benin
LINK TO EXHIBITION ︎
