'Centering Black ladies': Artist Roxane Mbanga on imagining her dream household house




A Parisian artist, who has roots in both Africa and the Caribbean, has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how as a child she could not even dream of her work being on display in a gallery in the city. Roxane Mbanga’s exhibition sees her reconstruct the rooms of her dream house. She’s done that by weaving together the threads of her heritage from Guadeloupe, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast. She says her work focuses on Black women and their “different perspective”. Mbanga spoke to us in Perspective.



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