YZ’s Women of “Empress” and Immigrant Communities in Roubaix, France

Positioned in one of France’s youngest and poorest regions, the city of Roubaix also is identified as property by a combine of immigrant populations from the global south who integrated into a vastly unique culture than the a single from which they arrived. Avenue Artist YZ has built women from these cultures the centre phase of her huge wheat-pasted portraits for about a ten years, and we have released her strategies of good pillars of their communities quite a few periods.

In recognition of her participation in the gals-centered exhibition URBAIN.ES here, curated by Magda Danysz, YZ claims she executed interviews of her topics from Kabul, Vietnam, Tunisia, Cameron, and the Ivory Coast just before building their large-scale portraits. She says she considers her work as that of a documentarian. She says it is a complicated mix of conforming to the new tradition and wanting to honor the traditions and routines of the old a person. What has she uncovered, apart from the immigrant stereotypes of Roubaix that outsiders occasionally have about them?   

“This is of individual value when questioning identity difficulties in a region in which the insistence on integration generally prioritizes the cultural ‘smoothing’ in excess of cultural id,” she says.

Below are a couple selections from YZ’s installations from her ongoing task “Empress,” which “explores the cultural range of diverse communities through the earth, questioning suggestions of consumerism and conformity.”

Click In this article to read our former article about this exhibition.

YZ and Her ‘Amazone’ Warrior Women of all ages On Senegalese Walls – Harrington and Rojo on Huffington Write-up

YZ Yseult “Empress” Provides More Powerful Feminine Photographs to the Street

URBAIN.ES 

Exposition collective sous le commissariat de Magda Danysz 
Team Present curated by Magda Danysz

Du 31 mars au 24 Juillet 2022 
From March 31st to July 24th, 2022

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La Ailment Publique, Roubaix, France

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