PortuguêsLocation: Pivô Boulevard — Salvador, Bahia
Address: Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré
Pivô will host a special program next Wednesday, November 12, connecting two projects that are part of the 2025 France-Brazil Season, both taking the Atlantic Ocean as a space of memory, passage, and imagination: Atlantic Threads (AT) and I’m a Black Ocean (ESUON).
At 3:30 p.m., the talk “Atlantic Threads (AT) + I’m a Black Ocean (ESUON)” brings together artists and curators Olivier Marboeuf and Cindy Sissokho, participants of AT, alongside artists Salimata Diop and Beya Gille, from ESUON. Taking the Atlantic as a metaphor for reconstituting historical and affective routes between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the projects reflect on how art can rewrite the narratives surrounding the Atlantic — transforming it from a territory of loss and violence into a shared space of listening and future.
Immediately after the talk, at 5 p.m., Olivier Marboeuf will launch his book Fugas Decoloniais (Oficina Raquel Publishing), with the participation of translator Ana Zambi. Originally published in France, the work has quickly become a reference in studies on minority visibility discourses and the cultural diversity policies of major institutions. Taking the art world as a point of departure — not as a space of emancipation, but as one of the strategic sites of colonial continuity — the book offers a contemporary study that reveals the strategies used by culture and neoliberal economics to sustain colonial structures.
The Atlantic Threads project, within the framework of the 2025 France-Brazil Season, is supported by the Institut Français du Bénin and the Instituto Guimarães Rosa, and sponsored by PETROBRAS. It is carried out by the Instituto Cultural Acrópole, through the Federal Government of Brazil, Culture Incentive Law, Ministry of Culture.
📍 Talk: Atlantic Threads + I’m a Black Ocean & Book Launch — Fugas Decoloniais
Date: November 13 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Pivô Boulevard — Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré, Salvador, Bahia
Olivier Marboeuf is an author-storyteller, artist, independent curator, cultural theorist and film producer from Guadeloupe. In the early 1990s, together with French-Beninese author Yvan Alagbé, he founded éditions Amok (now Frémok), a research-based comics publisher that launched the legendary Parisian literary café Autarcic Comix. He then became artistic director of Espace Khiasma (2004 to 2018), a visual arts and living literature center based in the parisian outskirts and dedicated to minority representations, which contributed to introducing postcolonial theories to the French art scene through numerous exhibitions and encounters. From 2013 to 2024, he was also a film producer with Spectre Productions, producing some sixty artists’ films and documentaries in all formats.
He currently divides his time between writing, drawing and activities linked to collaborative art practices. He is a founding member of the Réseau Indépendant des Travailleur-euses et Acteur-ices de l’Art (RITAA) in Guadeloupe, member of RAYO, an experimental pedagogy program in the Greater Caribbean, and of the international board of the Akademie der Künste der Welt de Cologne.
Among his recent grants and residencies, for the academic year 2023/2024 he has benefited from the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship at the University Institute of London in Paris (ULIP), where he initiated research about the archive of Caribbean diasporic presences in Paris and London. He is also writer in residence at La Maison Baldwin (Cassis site) in 2025.
In 2022, he published the essay Suites Décoloniales : s’enfuir de la plantation and the poetry collection Les Matières de la Nuit, both published with Éditions du Commun. In 2025, his theatrical text La nuit juste avant le feu will be published by Editions Atlantiques déchaînés, while a Brazilian Portuguese translation of Suite décoloniales is planned by Editora Oficina Raquel.