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Mariana Ibrahim Photo: Sofia Giner. March 08, 2021 at 7:08pm Just two years after moving her eponymous gallery from Seattle to Chicago, Mariane Ibrahim is to open an outpost in Paris in response to growing demand from European collectors for work by Black artists, Artnews reports. The new gallery will open in September in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, with a group show; among the artists Ibrahim currently represents are Amoako Boafo, Lina Iris Victor, Clotilde Jimenez, and Ayana V. Jackson. The gallerist, who grew up in Somalia and France before leaving Paris for the United States in 2010, said that she was drawn back to the city by the recent surge in interest among French museums in repatriating African artworks. “I detected a kind of movement in conversations around art from Africa in general,” Ibrahim noted. “The debate over whether art should go back to the places where it was made or taken or stolen [led to questions around] wha ....