Majik Kwir
Majic Kwir, 2021.
With Ugo Woatzi. 7 digital prints on aluminium (3 copies), 20 x 30 cm.
Vues de l’exposition collective À corps perdu, commissariat Nathalie Gonthier, Cité des Arts, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, 2022.
Photo © Ugo Woatzi
If the title sounds a bit like the name of a cartoon or a sci-fi movie, it is on purpose. Majik Kwir tells the story of an LGBTQIA+ community present before and during the colonisation of Reunion Island. Its mission is to protect the island from normative and assimilationist oppressions. Super-powered zèspri kwir (queer spirits) meet in large (cabarets); they bond with the living and with nature to keep the balance of the island and to resist discrimination.
Majik Kwir is the possibility of telling a non-existent story, filling a void in kwir1
history through fiction, in order to repopulate traumatized collective imaginations.
Traduction Camille Chaumont
- Kwir is a word from Reunionese Creole that allows queer issues to be anchored in the specific territory that is Reunion Island. It commonly refers to the LGBTQIA+ community in Reunion Island ↩