- Culture,
“Majik Kwir”, an exhibition by Brandon Gercara
from May 23, 2025 to November 29, 2025
Open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. / Saturday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Sundays and public holidays
Closed on Sundays and public holidays
The “Petit Hall”, a venue dedicated to contemporary art on campus, hosts a proposal by Brandon Gercara and Ugo Woatzi, based on the project “Majik Kwir”, a collection of texts, photographs and illustrations published by Frac Réunion in April 2024.
If the title sounds a little like the name of a cartoon or a science fiction film, that's because we've arrived at this stage
Decolonial feminism, gender, discrimination in its intersectional dimensions and creolization are at the heart of his reflection.
His photographs and writings accompany his commitment to the LGBTQIA+ cause and challenge the uniform vision of the kwir community, often reduced to that of the large metropolises; Kwir being the Reunion Island translation of the Anglophone Queer.
The artist has thus imagined Majik Kwir, a fictional work similar to a storybook in which seven mythical-looking characters with superpowers protect their Kwirdom territory from domination and oppression.
Performances, videos, photographs, installations - Brandon Gercara's practice imagines and fabricates political spaces where counter-powers can exist and take shape. The artist addresses issues of gender, decolonial feminism, intersectionality and creolization through events drawn from popular culture. Brandon Gercara has also created the Requeer program, a platform for research, socialization, visibilization and archiving of struggles against all the dynamics of domination in La Réunion.
Updated on July 7, 2025