Daniel Soutif

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of contemporary artists such as Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Ellen Gallagher, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Art historians and gallery owners place the works in context, setting them against the larger social contexts of Jim Crow, WWI, the civil rights movement and the racism of the Reagan era, while contemporary artists discuss individual works by their forerunners and their ongoing influence.

Film produced by writer Daniel Soutif and filmmaker Paule Zajdermann, which combined original film images from the Les Immatériaux exhibition galleries with sequences where the philosopher and curator Jean-François Lyotard speaks about his philosophical conception for the exhibition, parallel to the interviews of scientific advisors of the exhibition.