{"id":8148880,"date":"2026-01-29T23:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=8148880"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T23:15:55","slug":"i-dream-i-cross-the-river-in-one-stride","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/i-dream-i-cross-the-river-in-one-stride\/","title":{"rendered":"I Dream I Cross the River in One Stride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Mariane Ibrahim Gallery presents <em>I Dream I Cross the River in One Stride<\/em>, featuring new work by French artist <strong>Cl\u00e9mence Gbonon<\/strong> (b. 1994), alongside Brittney Leeanne Williams and Autumn Wallace. As part of this moment of visibility in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/residents\/clemence-gbonon\/\">Gbonon<\/a> will be in residence in Chicago in June 2026 as part the Villa Albertine residency program, further deepening her transatlantic artistic engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition takes inspiration from Lorraine O\u2019Grady\u2019s seminal essay <em>Olympia\u2019s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity<\/em>. O\u2019Grady highlights how the Black female body has historically existed as the unseen counterpart to Western ideals of femininity, present as stereotype, absent as subject. In response, these artists assert a self-authored vision of the body: multiple, complex, and unafraid of its own intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through painting, sculpture, and mixed media, Gbonon, Williams, and Wallace embrace what O\u2019Grady calls a \u201cboth\/and\u201d space: sensuous yet reflective, wild yet monumental, intimate yet bold, queer yet undefinable. Their works bend, double, withdraw, and sometimes dissolve before the viewer, demonstrating that subjectivity is claimed from within rather than granted externally. Here, the body no longer reflects someone else\u2019s gaze, it defines its own terms of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Clemence Gbonon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cl\u00e9mence Gbonon (born 1994, France) lives and works in Paris. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Cooper Union, New York, and graduated in 2024. Her work has been shown at Galerie Mennour in Paris, at the F\u00e9licit\u00e9s 2024 of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, at Parf\u00fcmerie (Frankfurt), FF Projects (Lagos), Cooper Union, and Canada Gallery (New York). Cl\u00e9mence Gbonon is a recipient of the Prix Sarr and the Prix Maurice Colin-Lefranc. 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