P L S #38 – ancestries

Issue 38 of P L S magazine calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material. Its contributions invite us to “communicate with the invisible,” in the words of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé in her novel “I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.” It is a matter of conjuring away oblivion and erasure: to revive connections and lineage, something both familiar and held in common, so as to find strength, protection, guidance and, perhaps, healing.

With texts and visual contributions by: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Yasmine Belhadi, Massabielle Brun, Neringa Bumblienė, Miryam Charles, Barbara Chase Riboud, Guillaume Désanges, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rebecca Hall & Hugo Martínez, Liz Johnson Artur, Isis Labeau Caberia, Simone Lagrand, LeRhonda S. Manigault Bryant, Myriam Mihindou, Dorothée Munyaneza, Amandine Nana, Deimantas Narkevičius, Naudline Pierre, Anastasia Sosunova, Émilie Villez, Claire Zaniolo

This issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (17.10 2024 – 05.01 2025), and in particular: “Tituba, Who Protects Us?,” a group show which invites artists with Carribean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality; Barbara Chase-Riboud’s exhibition “Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released”; Myriam Mihindou’s exhibition “Praesentia”; Malala Andrialavidrazana’s exhibition “Figures”; the group show “Borders Are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvūnai,” organized on the occasion of the Season of Lithuania in France.