Nuits Balnéaires charts a luminous passage through memory, mythology and the afterlives of inheritance.
26 May 2026
In Paris, Ivorian artist Nuits Balnéaires unveils ‘Eboro’, a deeply introspective exhibition that drifts between photography, installation, fashion and archival gesture. Rooted in the coastal atmospheres of Grand-Bassam and shaped by a transgenerational meditation on family history, the exhibition unfolds as both a personal elegy and a speculative cartography.
Produced as part of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ Latitudes programme, ‘Eboro’ traces the unresolved death of the artist’s uncle, journalist and playwright Noël X. Ebony, in Dakar in 1986. Yet rather than constructing a linear narrative, Nuits Balnéaires approaches remembrance as a porous and spiritual condition, in which oceans, dreams, and ancestral echoes become vessels for reconstruction.
Bathed in melancholic light and cinematic stillness, the works resist documentary certainty in favour of atmosphere and sensation. Figures emerge like apparitions suspended between worlds, while fragments of text, gesture and ritual suggest histories that remain unfinished. Drawing on Akan, Agni-Bona, and Malinké cosmologies, ‘Eboro’ proposes memory not as a fixed archive but as a living tide that continually reshapes the present.
This exhibition is on view at Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, until 4 October 2026.
