Carole B.
Photo: Digital Street Art (Creapolis)
Les Fortes de France
- Artist
- Carole B.
- Title
- Les Fortes de France
- Edition
- ARTMADA #1 · 2024
- Location
- 110 avenue Abbé Lavigne (ancienne école de filles), Fort-de-France
- Area
- Terres-Sainville
- Access
- Visible from the street, free
The story of the mural
On the façade of the former girls' school in Terres-Sainville, three portraits of women: Les Fortes de France (“the strong women of France”, a play on Fort-de-France), by Guadeloupean artist Carole B.
The format is the Marianne postage stamp: instead of the imaginary symbol of the Republic, real women. Left, Marie-José Pérec (sport); centre, Gerty Archimède, the first Black woman lawyer in France (law and politics); right, Jocelyne Béroard of Kassav' (music).
Each portrait is made with about ten hand-cut stencils, one per colour, and carries its own motto, such as “Liberty, Equality, Créolité” for Jocelyne Béroard.
Text : Digital Street Art (Creapolis trail commissioned by ARTMADA)
The artist
Carole B.
A Paris-based stencil and street artist from Guadeloupe, Carole B. makes works full of glamour and humour. She mixes femininity and feminism, historical references and pop art. During the festival she also led a stencil workshop featuring Josephine Baker.
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