PROMESSE
FONDATION ZINSOU . COTONOU & OUIDAH . BENIN . AFRICA
DECEMBER 7TH – AUGUST 31ST . 2025

More than an exhibition, PROMESSE is a global project, the outcome of a multi-dimensional conversation and intimate relationship between Joël Andrianomearisoa, the Fondation Zinsou, in Benin, and the many voices that have nurtured this dialogue over time.
“From Ouidah, Cotonou, the Fondation Zinsou, ourselves, we’re going to promise each other worlds and wonders, grandiose, inevitable, magnificent things…”

Joël Andrianomearisoa invites the audience to take a journey, a journey with an invented geography and where time cannot be read on a clock. A journey that takes us from Cotonou to Ouidah, from the center of the world to every other place. A journey through memory, emotions and the melancholy of a fading season… A motionless journey through the flow of the works. A journey where solitude is a promise of encounters, silence of music, death of life.

© Studio Joël Andrianomearisoa . © Yannick Folly