In connection with the exhibition In Praise of the Missing Image, co-presented by the MAC and MOMENTA as part of the 19th edition of the Biennale, we invite you to a guided tour with artists Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop – The Anonymous Project and guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi.
MAC at Place Ville Marie
Exhibition Walkthrough
With Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop – The Anonymous Project and Marie-Ann Yemsi
This exhibition walkthrough will be held in French on Friday, September 12, at 5:30 p.m. and will last 60 minutes.
We encourage you to book in advance as space is limited.
Lee Shulman + Omar Victor Diop — The Anonymous Project
Born in London, UK, Lee Shulman graduated from the University of Westminster with a BFA and now lives and works in Paris. In 2017, he founded The Anonymous Project. He invited photographer Omar Victor Diop to collaborate on this project, which resulted in the book Being There (Textuel, 2023). He worked with Martin Parr for the book Déjà View (Textuel, 2021), which was also the subject of a major exhibition at Magnum Gallery (Paris, 2022), and for the film I Am Martin Parr (2025), which Shulman directed. His work has been exhibited widely in major shows in the US, Europe, and Asia, including The House at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2019.
Omar Victor Diop was born in Dakar in 1980. Growing up, he cultivated his vivid imagination through literature and history and honed his talent in photography, collage, creative writing, fashion, and textile design. Since 2011, Diop has created a portfolio of self-portraits in which he embodies historical figures and fictional characters, questioning our relationship with our collective history. Diop’s work is in major institutional collections—Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), the Brooklyn Museum—and has been exhibited at high-profile international events (Paris Photo, Rencontres d’Arles, and Kyotographie [Japan]). As an art director, Diop has been commissioned by major brands and groups, including Lancel, Louis Vuitton, Bernardaud, Pernod Ricard, and Lavazza.
Marie-Ann Yemsi
Marie-Ann Yemsi is an independent exhibition curator and contemporary art consultant based in Paris, France. With a degree in political science, Yemsi pays particular attention to theoretical, critical, and aesthetic productions in the Global South and develops multidisciplinary art programs at the intersection of the visual arts, performance, dance, music, and writing. Her projects focus on collaborative art practices and experimental forms, highlighting themes such as memory, history, gender, and identity in relation to contemporary political, social, and ecological issues. She has organized numerous international exhibitions including, most recently, the group exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and Grada Kilomba’s A World of Illusions, at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa.
