Prof Brezault recently published an article in French for the academic journal, French Studies in Southern Africa about Fabrice Monteiro's photographic series, The Prophecy (2014). It is entitled: “Écologie et féminité dans La Prophétie de Fabrice Monteiro : les corps comme lieux afrotopiques pour repenser des territoires-monde.”
Her article is part of new research about environmental issues in Sub-Saharan Africa and examines Monteiro’s work in the light of Sarr’s Afrotopian concept.
Monteiro’s series intertwines femininity and ecology, depicting creatures in waste-filled landscapes, symbolizing ecological disasters. In those images, the artist depicts beautiful, dangerous, and monstrous creatures, ‘dressed’ in all kinds of waste, and moving in apocalyptic landscapes ravaged by ecological disasters. These Djinns with fantasized bodies draw on an animist vision of the world to raise public awareness of global warming. Monteiro invites us to reterritorialize our ecological imagination in and from Africa to develop a biocentric philosophy where humans become one with the nature that surrounds them.
More about Monteiro: https://instituteartist.com/The-Prophecy-Fabrice-Monteiro
