Nmt
Based between Paris and New York, Not Manet’s Type (NMT) is a loose group of female artists, art historians and writers working on collaborative curatorial projects, exploring new exhibition contexts and fostering cultural activism.
1. Black Mass
Black Mass, is an independent publisher promoting and publishing books and zines by Black artists. Established by Yusuf Hassan in 2019, they made an astonishing debut at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair. We’re very enthusiastic about this project because it aims to gather many talented and diverse Black artists from the U.S and Europe around a common interest and desire to explore Blackness, its effects, and affects through representations in images and texts.
2.@zouk.vintage
@zouk.vintage is an Instagram account run by Marie-Julie Chalu, founder of the online magazine Afropea. We are big fans of this vibrant encyclopedia of Zouk, a musical movement rooted in the French Antilles which took Europe by storm in the 1980s. Zouk Vintage is not only an archive of the genre’s visual language, it’s an homage to the many artists who nourished and defended Zouk’s musical craftsmanship throughout the years, allowing the style to remain an important influence for today’s beatmakers.
3.NMT x ENSAPC, May 2019
This past May, NMT organized a curatorial intervention at my university, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, located in the Parisian suburbs. The one-day intervention was based on our collaborative approach to curation and our interest in exploring new exhibition contexts. We wanted students to appropriate the school’s different spaces, with screenings of their work, performances, and writing and reading workshops. Our intention was also to tackle inclusivity issues in French art schools, which continue to struggle with being more socially and culturally diverse.