Hangar Gallery has revealed a groundbreaking new photographic series by French artist Sylvie Bonnot titled "The Kingdom of Mosquitoes" (Le Royaume des moustiques), created during her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as part of the Elles Cité 2025 program. The work explores the complex cultural landscape of French Guiana's Amazon region, where diverse communities have found refuge throughout history's tumultuous events.

Bonnot's ambitious project documents her encounters with immigrant communities in the Guyanese Amazon, where Bushinenge and Hmong cosmogonies intersect in a unique cultural synthesis. The artist has captured this extraordinary territory where lianas serve as literal and metaphorical bridges between different worlds, creating connections across communities that have settled in this equatorial region due to various historical upheavals.

Continuing her distinctive performative approach to landscape and image-making, Bonnot presents an unprecedented collection of unique artworks created through her signature "molting" (mue) technique. This innovative process involves lifting the silver membrane from her photographic prints, creating crystallized folds that mirror the layered narratives of this constantly transforming equatorial territory. The physical manipulation of the photographic surface reflects the visceral sharing of resources that characterizes life in this Amazon region.

The monochromatic sensitivity of Bonnot's photographs transforms these assembled fragments of Amazonian life into powerful connections with both the animal and plant kingdoms. Through her artistic vision, the work reveals the deep interconnectedness between human communities and the natural world in this biodiverse region, where survival and cultural identity are intimately linked to environmental resources.

Born in France in 1982, Sylvie Bonnot is an accomplished visual artist and photographer who divides her time between Burgundy and Paris. She is represented by Hangar Gallery in Brussels and is a member of the Tendance Floue collective. The exhibition will be featured at stand M03 in the Emergence sector, with additional information available at www.hangar.art.