NOIRES is Roxane Mbanga’s imaginary dream house. It is conceived as a series of multidisciplinary, immersive and itinerant installations. It brings together prints, textiles, moving images, sound, books and personal and everyday objects. It evolves and adapts to the environments in which it is conceived. Roxane Mbanga welcomes her public with performances, plays, discussions, live model sessions and literary, musical and gastronomic gatherings. From NOIRES, Roxane Mbanga presented the living room, the outdoor bathroom, the balcony, the backyard, the surrounding street and its activities (selling newspapers, boubous, televisions, DVDs, dressing and braiding hair).

This installation was the starting point for several projects:

Performances Where are you from?; HDF 1
The play Histoire de femmes
Workshops Life modeling in the outdoor bathroom of NOIRES; Play it safe (or not); A warm hug, casual talk and rocking on pillows together
Gatherings NOIRES talks; Monday dinners

« This oasis-refuge in the city is part of Roxane Mbanga's artistic practice, which in her installations explores the links between the lived body, that we experience through touch, smell, sight and hearing, and the perceived body, which is the receptacle of projections and fantasies. Attentive to the voices of black women and their plural identities, Roxane wants to offer havens of peace in a world where structural racism organizes relationships. She wants to make their individuality visible, free from the countless dictates that weigh on their existence and lock them into uniformity. » Françoise Vergès