The Centre Pompidou-Metz is currently hosting After the End: Cartographies for Another Time, an exhibition running from January 25 to September 1, 2025.
Curated by Manuel Borja-Villel, the exhibition brings together 40 international artists to explore narratives beyond the Western colonial framework, highlighting diasporic histories and alternative visions of time, belonging, and identity.
The Watch Hill Collection is honored to support this important exhibition through the loan of three significant works by Belkis Ayón:
- Nlloro (1991)
- Resurrección (Resurrection) (1988)
- Sin Titulo (La Soga Y el Fuego) (Untitled, The Rope and the Fire) (1996)
Ayón’s collographies, which draw from the Afro-Cuban Abakuá fraternal society’s iconography and engage with her place in her society powerfully align with the exhibition’s themes of memory, resistance, and reinterpretation.
These works, captured in exhibition images by Marc Domage, continue to resonate as critical reflections on identity and spirituality.
Our participation in After the End: Cartographies for Another Time reflects the Watch Hill Collection’s mission to champion artists whose work fosters dialogue and challenges dominant historical narratives. We remain committed to making thought-provoking art accessible and relevant, offering new perspectives on cultural legacies and contemporary realities.
Further artists included include:
- Laeïla Adjovi
- Amina Agueznay
- Basma al-Sharif
- Mounira Al Solh
- Victor Anicet
- Belkis Ayón
- Ariella Azoulay
- Yto Barrada
- Baya
- M’barek Bouhchichi
- Ahmed Cherkaoui
- Myrlande Constant
- Maya Deren
- Katherine Dunham
- Abdessamad El Montassir
- Ellen Gallagher
- GIAP (Grupo de Investigación en Arte y Política)
- Juan et Miguel González
- Kapwani Kiwanga
- Wifredo Lam
- Georges Liautaud
- Donald Locke
- Sarah Maldoror
- Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien
- Olivier Marboeuf
- Aline Motta
- Bouchra Ouizguen
- Rosana Paulino
- Alejandra Riera
- Philip Rizk
- Ahlam Shibli
- Tizintizwa
- Rubem Valentim
- Frank Walter
- Frantz Zéphirin
For more on our mission and collection, explore watchhillcollection.org.
For more information on the exhibition and to further explore the artists and themes involved, please see the supplemtary literature linked to this page.
To explore the Centre Pompidou-Metz exhibition page and book tickets, please visit the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
We encourage visitors to experience this groundbreaking exhibition and engage with the transformative stories it presents.
