Meeting with traditional tattoo artist Moana Heitaa. Moana uses the combs. Born in Tahiti, he learned with his Hawaiian mentor Heizea of Soul Pacific Signature, before traveling to the Pacific to deepen his knowledge and rediscover this ancestral art which has continued in Samoa and Tonga.
How at the beginning of 2022, while doing research in France on Henriette Lorimier and the women painters of the early 19th century, in a cellar in Bagneux Jonathan Bougard came across a bust signed Muta Mayola, the most important Congolese sculptor of the twentieth century, of which we thought all the works had disappeared. At the same time as on a set of works by his students and nephews Grégoire Massengo, Benoit Konongo and Edouard Malonga. The fathers of modern Congolese sculpture, main representatives of the Muta Mayola school.
Sampaguita Jay is one of the black and gray tattoo specialists in France. With the Mark of the Four Wawes Tribe collective, she popularized traditional Filipino tattooing, where she was originally from.
Celebration of Fernando Arrabal, 90 years old, poet, playwright, member of the transcendent body of satraps of the college of pataphysics and founder of the panic movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. With Alejandra Chulia Jordan, Arrabal specialist. With the contribution of François Naudin. Moderation Wanda Mihuléac. Caroline Corre for bibliophile books.
Roland Tiaipoi is a Thai boxing trainer in Tahiti. He takes care of the young people in his neighborhood of Tipaerui, he channels them. It's long-term work, as Roland Darrouzes, president of the Tahitian Federation of Thai Boxing and associated disciplines, says. Roland is not alone, Polynesia has around fifteen clubs. Unknown to the general public, he chose pragmatism.
When the name Hikueru is mentioned, all the other surrounding islands shudder with fear. Because in the story, when someone from Hikueru says anything it comes true. In Hikueru speech is sacred. Tapu was born in Hikueru. Until the age of nine, he grew up with his grandfather in Reka Reka. There is no better place in the universe than the Tuamotus, Tapu tells us. Tapu Bonnet descends from the great names of French Polynesia. He can recite his genealogy over several centuries. Forty years ago he was one of the seeds, one of those who renovated and restored this culture which was prohibited: walking on fire, tattooing... Incredible the flowering that there has been since that time of eighties.
JR show on November 12, 2023 on the facade of the Palais Garnier. Chiroptera in the cave. Darkness holds the grace of the light
Everyone knows Pitore in Moorea. Pitore is a sculptor, farmer, fisherman, canoe builder, fare builder, masseur and tattooist. He also makes medicines based on medicinal plants.
Unanimously considered the greatest choreographer Polynesia has known, Coco Hotahota is a dance master. He is one of the rare group leaders, if not the only one, to actually take care of the entire production chain of a show, whether it is writing the theme, writing the songs, composing. , costume creation, choreography. In 1962 he created his troupe, Te Maeva, which in 55 years of existence will have been the most successful troupe in the history of Heiva i Tahiti, and also the largest troupe in terms of number, more than 150 dancers in peak, in the 80s. Today we have the impression that Coco, who has long represented modernity, has become a bit of a reference for tradition. It's the whole contradiction of the character that we also admire for that. This film traces the long history of Te Maeva.
In 2023, the Patutiki kakiu festival was held in Paris, the very first major international festival dedicated to the culture of the Polynesian archipelago of the Marquesas.
Discovery of the community of Vitaria, on the island of Rurutu in the Austral archipelago in Polynesia. In Vitaria we are Rurutu Protestants. This church draws on its autochthony to regain control over individuals and their native land. To stay in the symbolism, it should be noted that the geographical point furthest from Jerusalem is located in the Austral archipelago, south of the island of Rapa. The prism of local Christianity will be an opportunity to focus on the lives of the people of Vitaria, to get to know Patia Taputu, a charismatic character who is a farmer, breeder and fisherman. His wife Tiare is a recognized craftswoman. The couple raised their seven children on vanilla, coffee, egg production and making woven hats from white pandanus.
Gastineau Massamba is a painter, sculptor and poet. It is constantly renewing itself.
Discovery of the exhibition "Love and Justice" by Laetitia Ky at the Maison des Arts de Créteil, with explanations from Fanny Bertin, head of cultural programming.
Laetitia Ky in Paris. Laetitia Ky began by sculpting her hair, then she moved on to painting, writing, cinema, and recently modeling terracotta. She does nothing like the others, and multiplies projects... Meeting on the occasion of the finishing of his exhibition Who's that woman? LIS10 gallery in Paris. Also featuring Alessandro Romanini, curator of the exhibition, Alberto Chiavacci, gallery owner, and Jacobleu, Ivorian artist and cultural operator.
Play by Hakim Bah directed by Thales Zokène.
Almen Gibirila is a fashion icon, founder in 1980 of Black Experience, the first black modeling agency in Paris. Congolese journalist Nzoumba-Lissa invites us to discover her creations during the Top Model Africa Paris casting.
For several years, Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut have presented the performance Nus descending the stairs.
Tatak ng apat na alon tribe, is better known in English as Mark of the four wawes tribe. Made up of just over 150 members, this collective based in Los Angeles popularizes traditional Filipino tattooing around the world. At its head for more than twenty years, we find the famous artist Elle Festin and his wife, Zelle Festin.
This film takes the form of an investigation into the life and work of the sculptor Vaiere Mara, born in 1936 in Rurutu, in the Austral Islands (French Polynesia) and died in Arue in 2005. Mara sculpted wood, coral and stone and his production was remarkable and noticed from the 1960s. Many local personalities placed orders with the man whom some considered the first contemporary Polynesian artist. The film traces the director's journey in search of Mara's works, scattered across islands and continents, and the personal story of this exceptional artist. Combining testimonies from those close to him, reconstructions of the founding moments of his career and documentation of the works found, this film appears as an investigation that is at once human, artistic and detective... which allows us to reconstruct the context of Vaiere Mara's creation.
A Heiva in Tahiti with the poet John Mairai as troop leader.
