Logobi tu nous manques
France
2024
Logobi is a fast, jerky dance, often accompanied by energetic music that blends coupé-décalé, electronic music and other contemporary African styles. It emerged in the early 2000s among young urban dwellers in The Ivory Coast, and was adopted a few years later by working-class young people in Parisian suburbs. More recently, social media, such as YouTube and TikTok, have fuelled its growth and boosted its popularity.
In France, Logobi has become a means of expression, celebration and resistance, particularly for people of African descent. To counter cultural oblivion, Luna Mahoux is collecting its digital traces. Accumulating screenshots and testimonies from key Logobi figures, she makes it visible and creates a memory of it. The resulting body of work also reveals an exploration of our social and political realities.
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International
and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (CWB), Paris – Hors-Les-Murs Constellations
Portfolio
About the artist
Born in 1996, Luna Mahoux lives and work between Paris and Brussels. She is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts visuels de La Cambre and of the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy. In 2023, she was awarded the .tiff prize (Emerging Belgian Photography) from the FOMU in Antwerp, and began a post-master’s degree at Le Fresnoy. Luna Mahoux’s work is constructed as a memorial collection around the transmission of personal and community black emotions.