Bringing together twenty years of visual research devoted to the African diaspora in Europe and around the world, Johny Pitts presents his project Black Bricolage in the MEP Studio. Photographs, archives, personal documents, and testimonies are interwoven through plays of reflection, blur, and assemblage, offering a subtle and nuanced representation of contemporary Afro-descendant experiences.
Photographer and writer Johny Pitts has developed an independent practice for over twenty years, grounded in long-form research and human encounter.In the wake of the global financial crash, in the early 2010s, he embarked on a five-month journey across Europe, armed with several notebooks and a camera. This project grew from a necessity both intimate and political: to understand what it means to be Black in Europe, beyond clichés, identity assignations and dominant narratives. The discovery of the word Afropean came as a revelation, and served as a portal rather than a destination.
