United Souls exhibits its wrestling figures at the Rio Loco festival

As part of the festival Rio Loco , United Souls had the honor of organizing a major exhibition of its wrestling figures.

Four totems, eight faces and as many giant portraits of figures – four women, four men – who engaged in the fight for civil rights in order to change the course of history, each in their own way.

Produced from organic cotton, in a stylish and committed design, the United Souls range brings the great, often unknown, figures of the struggle for civil rights into the public space.

This exhibition is also, and perhaps above all, a tribute to music and its major role in the struggles for the emancipation of oppressed peoples. Blues, soul, jazz, hip-hop, Afrobeat… are undeniably part of a globally shared cultural heritage.

The exhibition thus highlights two Portuguese speakers: the icon of the Afro-Brazilian queer struggle Marielle Franco and the African anti-colonial strategist Amilcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau). It also highlights committed musicians like the king of Afrobeat Fela Kuti , the militant diva Nina Simone and the voice of Arab unity and identity Oum Kalthoum . Finally, she pays tribute to activist writers: Maya Angelou the poet and civil rights activist, James Baldwin , the advanced conscience and civil rights mediator, or the revolutionary historian Sheikh Anta Diop .

All the portraits in the Figures de Lutte United Souls exhibition are original illustrations created by artists from the Occitanie region: Marie-Claire Laffaire , Olivier Bonhomme, Joy Hanoun, Camille Laforcenée, Amandine Szczepaniak , accompanied by texts by the historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara.

At the heart of the exhibition and at the main entrance to the festival, we had the pleasure of welcoming festival-goers, debates and open stages within our pop-up store.

Thanks

Music : "Better than that" Jupiter & Okwess

Many thanks to those who supported us in the creation of this exhibition:

The RIO LOCO Festival
The association SME (Solidarity Migrants Entrepreneurs)
TOTAL SCREEN - Communication & Events
The ETHIC & CHIC boutique
Where the Fashion We Praise 
The LE FILOCHARD concert café 
Video production PIXELVISION
The CHANTEPIE workshop 
BIOME Design 
CHAKO Design
Collective ORAL

Thanks also to the "brothers" Mathias Tenret and Jean-Pascal Zadi