The meeting The BROTHERHOOD BOAT project was conceived in the bosom of the METISSE A NANTES Association by its president Dieudonné Boutrin Boutrin sees the project : «…recognizing Africa in all the cultural and artistic wealth of miscegenation. “It is both an apprenticeship village and a journey connecting Europe, Africa and the Americas. It “takes us beyond repentance to project us into the universal.” “Its mission is to organize exchanges, creative forums, exhibitions….to bring down the walls of “silence, to bridge generations, people and cultures…..” “….to struggle against all forms of discrimination and slavery, ….. aggression against human dignity: “child labor, prostitution, forced labor, children, women and men trade, tyrannical regimes…These “realities are common on our planet Earth. However, beside construction of the Brotherhood Ship,
“….The response came from the sea. In July 2008, during the Fêtes Maritimes of Brest, France, “landing on the wharf of Douarnenez to make a presentation of the project: Les Femmes Nomades / “Nomadic Women (100 figures were exhibited on the wharf), ART was the response to our international and intercultural communication “challenge.” Dieudonné Boutrin, Daniel Proust and Guy Lorgeret, the artist creator met and decided that Lorgeret’s Nomadic Women would become the Ambassadors of the Brotherhood Ship and during the 5 to 7 years it would take to build the ship and the Container would be their home to travel through the world until then.
“The Nomadic Container” Recounts History
Then the container gives access to information. It has pictures and text. It is closed. It is the symbol of silence, contemplation almost as a memorial; it is also the ambassador of the Brotherhood Boat. The visitor gets into the installation with his own history and knowledge. This will impact his reaction to the container, that containers that frees its occupiers." Guy Lorgeret
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"These women created to travel are mutating. Over time, they have become more mature, more diversified, they have met other people and their number has increased. I made them this way because I imagined them coming from three continents. I also imagine them reclusive, isolated from their history, withdrawing from the world, waiting for a possible departure on a slavery boat. Thus, they would head to a new destination, far away from their native town/home. They are wandering in the foggy night, hoping that they would get together again one day for a wedding celebration or a family ceremony. In transit on an unknown land, obliged to wait, everything is possible. They do not talk about their loneliness. They live there, near a container that is the poetry of misery, facing the sea where there are ebbs and flows of suppressed stories. As an open book, this container talks about magic and fear. The Nomadic Women are displaced, deported, evacuated, separated from a country to another.
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