The Maison-Boîte, the branch of the cneai dedicated to artist production and distribution, supported Borgial throughout the realization of this project, right up to the final exhibition of his works.

Artist

A multidisciplinary artist based in Paris, Borgial develops work centered on the theme of transformation. He explores its many facets through performance, video, and sculpture. His universe draws on ancient mythologies and traditions, ancestral craftsmanship, anthropology, and contemporary popular culture. His practice draws on non-Western cultures, particularly those of Central and West Africa, as well as Western art history, to offer new narratives with mixed influences.
At the heart of Borgial’s artistic practice, the body becomes a vehicle for expressing the physical, cultural, and spiritual territory it embodies..

Le Miroir

Borgial presents a series of installations combining sculptures, objects, and audiovisual devices.
At the heart of this exhibition, Borgial presents a collection of relic sculptures in which personal memories and collective narratives intertwine. He draws on memory and mythology to weave a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, thus fixing in the material of his pieces a memory that oscillates between persistence, erasure, and renewal.
Borgial’s work traces the transmission of family memories across generations, marked by his departure from Congo to France and the weight of the civil war in 1997, like so many traces of a past whose forms have become elusive.
He explores the syncretic mechanism of a displaced identity construction. He translates the hybridity of values and temporalities through works where contemporary traditions and influences intersect, questioning the boundary between the sacred and the profane, between heritage and spiritual emancipation.
Spirituality is a common thread running through his practice. His installations are vestiges of the soul, traces of a meditative pilgrimage where memory is inscribed in matter. Oral cultures are transformed into symbols, memories into mythologies.
Through this collection, we are invited to question our relationship with myths, the transmission of memories, and the intangible spaces that shape our identities. A meditative journey where each work becomes a threshold, an opening to another place where the personal and the universal meet.

Partners

This project is supported by the Île-de-France region grant “FoRTE” and the cneai =.
Since 2017, FoRTE, the Regional Fund for Emerging Talent, has been supporting young artists in partnership with cultural organizations to produce their first work in music, the performing arts, visual and digital arts, film, and video.