A multidisciplinary artist based near Paris, Massandja Sanogo navigates between theatre, performance, photography, video and DJing to explore the complex history of the Black diaspora.
Through hybrid forms, her work addresses social issues and shed light on the often neglected diasporic narratives. Her first hybrid show, Rapport sur ma vie antérieure de femme noire (Report on my previous life as a black woman), created during a residency at Centquatre-Paris, questions notions of belonging and identity. In 2023, her research took her to India, and in 2024, the MIRA grant allowed her to pursue the investigations in New York that will feed the Mass o Menos project.
Sanogo’s short films have been screened at several festivals and venues, including Le Méliès in Montreuil and Kinograph in Brussels.
Project: Mass o Menos is a one-woman show combining video, text and music, retracing an identity quest through the Afro-descendant diaspora, between New York, Abidjan, New Delhi, as well as Sanogo’s experience as an Afro-descendant woman in France.