Roxane Mbanga

NOIRES is an evolving dream house, a space built from the stories, memories, and knowledges carried by Black women.

Initiated in 2021, it unfolds as a constellation of immersive and itinerant installations: Le Salon, La Salle à Manger, Le Balcon, La Terrasse, La Cour intérieure, La Rue. Each space is shaped by personal archives, memories, and intimate stories shared by women with plural identities. Through textiles, prints, moving images, sounds, books, and everyday objects gathered across Africa, the Caribbean, and Roxane’s family homes. The intimate becomes political. The body, projected upon, stereotyped, and racialized, reclaims its own silence and dignity.

NOIRES travels. It adapts to new architectures and cultural contexts, built and rebuilt across cities and continents, it is activated by performances, dinners, readings, and conversations.

A space rooted in the ancestral knowledges carried across generations and open to all Afrodescendant communities, across geographies and inheritances, to imagine new futures together.

A living archive in motion.

A home that belongs to those who enter it.

Sculptures photographies prints moving images book/publication clothings sound textile murals

NOIRES, La Salle à Manger, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, La Salle à Manger, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, La Salle à Manger, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

©Studio Vanssay

NOIRES, La Salle à Manger, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

©Studio Vanssay

NOIRES, La Salle à Manger, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, Le Salon #3, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, Le Salon #3, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, Le Salon #3, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, Le Salon #3, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, La Terrasse, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

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NOIRES, La Terrasse, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

©Studio Vanssay

NOIRES, La Terrasse, 2025
193 Gallery (Paris FR), November 2025

©Studio Vanssay