Raphaël Barontini, Artist Portrait, 2023. Photography by Lucie Cipolla. Courtesy of M Le Monde Magazine.
At the Pantheon, Raphaël Barontini and his procession of the forgotten
Invited to exhibit in the mausoleum of the Republic's "great men", the French visual artist, who works in particular on the memory of the Caribbean, summons the erased heroes of the fight against slavery.
The fruit of a year's hard work, his exhibition at the Panthéon, entitled We Could Be Heroes - a title borrowed from David Bowie's famous song - is both reparation and celebration: an ode to these heroes of the Caribbean, most often forgotten.
