Tentatives de Résurgences

With La Station Culturelle & unRepresented

Paris, France

2026

Tania Arancia

The grant to support contemporary French Caribbean and Amazonian creation, launched in 2025 by Rubis Mécénat with La Station Culturelle, a major player in the cultural field in Martinique, and the unRepresented by a ppr oc he fair, enables an artist living and working in Martinique, Guadeloupe, or French Guiana to present their work at the unRepresented fair in Paris and benefit from a tailor-made program of professional meetings related to the development of their artistic career.

The 2026 winner, Tania Arancia, is an artist and textile designer born in Guadeloupe in 2002, with a degree in textile research and development from the École supérieure des Arts appliqués Duperré. Having returned to Guadeloupe in 2024, she is pursuing textile and poetic research at the intersection of the intimate and the political, as well as archiving her family memories. In line with this work on memory, she is also developing an experimental approach to photography, particularly around cyanotype and archiving.

This production and distribution grant aims to promote the dynamism of contemporary Caribbean and Amazonian creation in France, while addressing the inequalities related to the visibility and mobility of artists from these territories.

Tania Arancia

Tania Arancia is an artist and textile designer born in Guadeloupe in 2002, with a degree in textile research and development from the École supérieure des Arts appliqués Duperré. It was while training in weaving on a manual loom that Tania Arancia developed her way of combining colors and threads to create intimate textiles. Through them, she questions the cultural and political environment in which she grew up. During her studies, she kept a notebook in which she attempted to cure her homesickness. Collages of family portraits and a few words gradually became a form of writing imbued with family nostalgia and collective anger linked to Guadeloupean history.

In 2023, she presented a woven piece, Gâteau fouetté, for the first time at the group exhibition “Harmonious Quietude” at the International Youth Union, curated by Adama Keïta. In 2024, she began two months of textile research between Senegal and Ghana, focusing on shared memories and stories of heritage. Returning to Guadeloupe in 2024, she continued her textile and poetic research at the intersection of the intimate and the political, as well as archiving her family memories. In line with this work on memory, she also developed an experimental approach to photography, particularly around cyanotype and the family archive. For her, the photographic image becomes a material to be woven in the same way as thread. The bluish silhouettes of the cyanotype, with their areas of erasure and persistence, evoke the ghostly presence of beings and stories that still inhabit bodies and places. These experiments allow her to create a dialogue between intimate memory and collective memory, creating images that emerge like traces of the past.