Paul Maheke

Born in Brive in 1985, Paul Maheke lives and works in London. He graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2007, then from Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy in 2011. He then moved to Montreal, where he began producing in public spaces, reflecting on sharing and otherness. Today, using installation, video and performance, Paul Maheke's work explores issues of identity and socio-political oppression in a search for anamnesis and emancipation. He proposes to use the body as an archive of this past, and stages it in such a way as to reveal the interdependence between a visible and invisible, human and metaphysical world. Paul Maheke's internationally acclaimed work has been shown at the Tate Modern in London, the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 and the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris in 2021.