To develop his multifaceted oeuvre of film, photography, drawings and sculpture, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (b. in 1977) takes as his point of departure extensive research on artefacts of colonial and post-colonial history.
Exhibition Mefloquine Dreams
Artist(s) Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Venue MMK Frankfurt
Artist(s) Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Venue MMK Frankfurt
They serve him as representatives of complex global interrelations and the impact of the latter on the construction of cultural identity.
The film Sector IX B (2015), which was first presented at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, forms the core of his presentation at the MMK. It tells the fictive story of an ethnologist who in the course of her research begins to question the fundamental conditions of her discipline.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Axel Schneider
Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Axel Schneider

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Axel Schneider
Installation view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Photo: Axel Schneider

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Sector IX B, 2015
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
Filmstill, Courtesy of the Artist, © Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Acarid, parasite of Sandflies, 1970
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Archiv Émile Abonnenc. Photo: Axel Schneider
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Archiv Émile Abonnenc. Photo: Axel Schneider

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Incest fears Insect, 2014/2016
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy the Artist and Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Axel Schneider
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy the Artist and Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Axel Schneider

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc - Acarid, parasite of Sandflies, 1970
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Archiv Émile Abonnenc. Photo: Axel Schneider
Detailed view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Archiv Émile Abonnenc. Photo: Axel Schneider