The monographic exhibition « I telman nwè ki i blé (Si noir que cela en devient bleu) » presents Valérie John's work since the 1990s and her return to Martinique, where she chose to establish her « atelier-œuvre ». This act was then a commitment to « faire œuvre » through immersion within her milieu and in engagement with the translocal memory of the place, in a gesture of shifting identity construction.
At the Palais de Tokyo, through assemblages of paper and textiles, installations, clothing, objects and books, the artist offers a plunge into the metamorphoses of indigo: an aesthetic and sensory experience ranging from the deepest blue tones to the most brilliant black.