Chada has been selected as the first commissioned artist to create an in-situ installation at the Château de Montgoger in the Loire Valley. The project will be a central piece of the exhibition NOIR MATTERS, part of the AR(t)CHIPEL festival organised by the Centre Pompidou and the Region Centre-Val de Loire.
NOIR MATTERS showcases artworks from the Margaux and Raphaël Blavy Collection, focusing on the contemporary African art scene and its diverse artists. The exhibition presents a cartography of contemporary resistance, weaving connections between a constellation of artists from the African continent, its diasporas, and other geographies. Together, they confront political violence, historical amnesia, ecological collapse, and social marginalisation through radical visual languages. In an uncertain world, NOIR MATTERS asserts itself as an essential act of resistance – an exhibition space that is unruly, insurgent, and unapologetically artistic.
The in-situ installation – Pas très loin – conceived by Chada for the Château de Montgoger explores the theme of immigration from a contemporary perspective. It aims to create a link between objects looted during the colonial period and the people who produced them. Although it addresses the issue of the displacement of bodies and objects, this installation, made of ceramics and textile works, also refers to the displacement of know-how, gestures, colours and culture.
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NOIR MATTERS, Collection Margaux et Raphaël Blavy
18–19 and 25–26 October 2025
Château de Montgoger, Saint Épain, France
18–19 and 25–26 October 2025
Château de Montgoger, Saint Épain, France
18–19 and 25–26 October 2025
