Nanténé Traoré — pays des merveilles

Nanténé Traoré shot these pictures on the Breton coast in summer 2025, on expired film from the 1990s, and the decayed stock chose the colours. Shorelines, birds, stray dogs and sleeping figures come through in what Beware calls "vaporous lights, blue or orange", with bodies blurring into landscape.

The MEP Studio has low ceilings, and the prints run in one sequence, which Traoré describes as "a sentence hung on a wall". About 35 images were picked from a series of 72. In the line sits a silent video the same size as the prints, carrying his text about the violence he and his sister suffered from their mother as children. He kept it off the walls and left out sound on purpose, so you read all of it, some, or none.

This is his first museum show, built for slow looking. The Studio comes with the MEP ticket (€13 on site, €14 online, €8 reduced, free under 12), and Thursdays run to 10pm.