Tere Recarens exhibition at the Frac Bourgogne results of two recent visits to Mali. The artist (born in 1967, Spain) set out to discover the meaning of her first name for the Bamanan, the countrys majority ethnic group. In Mali, the word tere refers to a particular part of the personality, a kind of karma. Maa Tere Manale was devised during her second stay in Mali. After she learnt in Estonia that tere meant good day, she plunged into a similar investigation around tere meanings in the animist culture. She had a fabric printed which traced all the motifs linked with the tere, and exchanged it for photos of all people who helped her. Through this barter she set up a shared interest, another economy in which quality of the shared experience dominates