{"id":39492,"date":"2026-05-14T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/an-aesthetic-of-mauritian-creolity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:25:44","slug":"an-aesthetic-of-mauritian-creolity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/an-aesthetic-of-mauritian-creolity\/","title":{"rendered":"An aesthetic of Mauritian creolity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Vitrinn Gallery presents <\/b><b><i>Memwar<\/i><\/b><b>from May 15 to 31<\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b> 2026<\/b><\/span><b>at Le Quartier <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>G<\/b><\/span><b>eneral in Saint-Pierre, a first exhibition signed by photographer Fabien Vilrus, stylist Nicolas Guichard and curator Aliya Chojoo. Both from Reunion Island,   <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>Fabien and Nicolas <\/b><\/span><b>immersed themselves in the intimacy and passions of Mauritians from Bambous, Tamarin, Coromandel, Pointe-aux-Sables, Rose-Hill and Grand Bassin&#8230;<\/b> <em>Dominique Bellier<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Set in a vast rectangle of 300 m<span class=\"s2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/span>Vitrinn offers a space that is as malleable as you like&#8230; so much so that, alongside the forty or so photos hanging on the walls, the artists have reconstructed <i>enn ti lakaz<\/i> in sheet metal as a social symbol of the culture that unites Mauritians, links them to other Creole peoples and makes them singular. Designed to give a sense of the materials and decor that make up the intimacy of modest families in certain neighborhoods, this installation also evokes certain images taken in La Gaulette or Cit\u00e9 Tamarin&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A series of black-and-white portraits show the smiles of Pinky and her family in Cit\u00e9 Tamarin, the last bastion under siege from new construction. With their warm, saturated colors, the other photographs carry a kind of gravity, due to their vintage aesthetic, dominated by red and yellow. <span class=\"s1\">. This brings  <\/span>a timeless sophistication <span class=\"s1\">to these snapshots of everyday life <\/span>: the plastic chair where you <span class=\"s1\">&#8220;<\/span> <i>kas enn poz <\/i><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;,<\/span> the living room where you avoid sitting down, young women posing, boxing fans or customized cars.<span class=\"s1\">.<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After <span class=\"s1\"><i>La Kaz<\/i> <\/span>in La R\u00e9union in 2020, <span class=\"s1\"><i>Memwar<\/i> <\/span>represents the second stage of a long-term project, which proposes &#8220;a visual and anthropological exploration of Creole culture on a global scale&#8221;. The duo will develop the same questioning in the Caribbean, Cape Verde<span class=\"s1\">and<\/span> Louisiana. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1875\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-scaled.jpg 1875w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-1125x1536.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-1500x2048.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-308x420.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-696x950.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-1068x1458.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-1920x2622.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-366x500.jpg 366w, https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chair-220x300@2x.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitrinn Gallery presents Memwarfrom May 15 to 31 2026at Le Quartier General in Saint-Pierre, a first exhibition signed by photographer Fabien Vilrus, stylist Nicolas Guichard and curator Aliya Chojoo. Both from Reunion Island, Fabien and Nicolas immersed themselves in the intimacy and passions of Mauritians from Bambous, Tamarin, Coromandel, Pointe-aux-Sables, Rose-Hill and Grand Bassin&#8230; Dominique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture-en"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39498,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39492\/revisions\/39498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}