Carine Biley and Ngalula Mafwata are pleased to present Sacred Languages: The Metamorphoses, the solo exhibition of Cameroonian photographer and visual artist Martin ABEGA at Filafriques in Geneva.

Presented as part of a collaboration between Filafriques and MAYÌ ARTS, and curated by Ngalula Mafwata, the exhibition brings together a fascinating selection of photographic compositions and works blending photography, textile, embroidery, cowrie shells and charcoal.

Sacred Languages: The Metamorphoses explores processes of transformation unfolding through both body and mind: ordeal, fragility, trace, transmission and regeneration, metaphorically embodied through the female figure.

FROM IMAGE TO MATTER

Martin ABEGA’s world brings together body, memory and beauty.

For ABEGA, photography is never an end in itself. It is a doorway, a sacred portal into other interconnected realms of thought.

From photography to textile, from embroidery to charcoal, the image extends, fragments, absorbs and takes form anew. Inner metamorphoses become visual metamorphoses.

Sacred Languages: The Metamorphoses does not seek to impose a definitive interpretation of the sacred. Instead, it opens a space for contemplation and inquiry.

What remains of us after transformation?