Cimarron Mascarade Et Liberte

Description

"Cimarron" (after "Bretonnes" and "Yokainoshima") is the 3rd part of a photographic series begun in 2013 by Charles Fréger. From the southern United States to Brazil, the artist draws up an inventory of masquerades practiced by the descendants of African slaves, celebrating through this medium the memory of their peers and their singular cultures. Between masks, make-up, costumes, ornaments and accessories, African, indigenous and colonial cultures intermingle, caught up in the vertigo of a syncretic movement. The masquerade is more than ever here a territory of setting in regard of a community by another one, space where we replay, where we reinvent the relation to the oppressor either to mimic it, or to reverse it, always to subvert it.