T2i is a rapper, graphic designer, and music video director who lives and works in Roura, French Guiana and graduated from the Campus Fonderie de l’ Image outside Paris. His musical universe is filled with ebullient and minimalist hip-hop sounds, and, with training in graphic design and videography, the image is his testing ground. From visuals to music, everything is made by him to render a singular creative universe. In 2022, he and the artist NouN created Manman Dilo, a multidisciplinary exhibition shown in French Guiana, Paris, and several cities in Brazil. T2i has a strong connection to his native Creole culture, which is reflected in his work. He often addresses themes related to identity, daily life, and social issues in French Guiana.
María Wills is an independent curator whose main projects reexamine official historical narratives in art. Her cocurated exhibitions Sembrar la duda: Indicios sobre las representaciones indígenas en Colombia and Wametisé: ideas para un amazofuturismo highlighted the need for Indigenous communities to have their own governance in order to be the narrators of their own creations. Previously, for the 2019 MOMENTA Bienniale de l’ image, titled The Life of Things, she presented a critique of the categories that define cultural objects as exotic or“ non-Western,” as well as other aspects of the crisis of creativity in our consumer society. She was the director of the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República from 2020 to 2024, where she promoted diverse projects that problematize and redefine the role of art museums in a country like Colombia.
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