{"id":1471,"date":"2021-05-06T17:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/2021\/05\/06\/les-yohoure-de-cote-divoire-faire-danser-les-dieux\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:48:42","slug":"the-yaure-of-cote-divoire-making-the-gods-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/en\/the-yaure-of-cote-divoire-making-the-gods-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yaure of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Making the Gods Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ALAIN-MICHEL BOYER<\/h4>\n\n<p>Is Yaure an art de salon? How many Western collectors place one of their \u201cravishing\u201d masks on a shelf, not considering that in a village the mask is so sacred that it is forbidden for any woman to see it\u2014at the cost of her life?<br\/>The Yaure, a small ethnic group in the centre of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, have created a unique art. All the neighbouring peoples attribute power and menace to animal masks covered in coagulated blood, but the Yaure confer the same sacredness and dread on refined human faces with virtuoso lines, which seem to have been chiselled by a goldsmith.<br\/>These masks are charms. Giving material form to ambivalent deities\u2014both benevolent and maleficent\u2014they have the aim of beseeching them. The best way to win the gods\u2019 favour? <em>Invite them to the dance<\/em>, <em>enchant them<\/em>, include them in choreographies that regulate their energy. It is during nocturnal ceremonies that the celebrations are the most grandiose, when the dancers, galvanized, twirl in the light of the torches. Mystic ecstasy restores a purifying sovereignty to the supernatural spirits that the masks are charged with symbolizing. Did not Nietzsche\u2019s Zarathustra say: \u201cI would only believe in a God who could dance\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALAIN-MICHEL BOYER Is Yaure an art de salon? How many Western collectors place one of their \u201cravishing\u201d masks on a shelf, not considering that in a village the mask is so sacred that it is forbidden for any woman to see it\u2014at the cost of her life?The Yaure, a small ethnic group in the centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surveys"],"meta_box":{"image_advanced_bajytcpz939":[{"width":150,"height":150,"file":"2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou-.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"2.-Village-Bokassou--257x300.jpg","width":257,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou--257x300.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"2.-Village-Bokassou--150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou--150x150.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"2.-Village-Bokassou--768x898.jpg","width":768,"height":898,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou--768x898.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"ID":"648","name":"2.-Village-Bokassou-.jpg","path":"\/home\/clients\/5430092b271085efa9501c5c032c54b3\/sites\/fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou-.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou--150x150.jpg","full_url":"https:\/\/www.fondation-culturelle-barbier-mueller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2.-Village-Bokassou-.jpg","title":"Le village namanl\u00e9 de Bokassou, un peu perdu dans la vall\u00e9e entre deux collines, r\u00e9partit greniers et maisons sur plus d\u2019un kilom\u00e8tre. 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