Producer, composer, drummer, singer Léonie Pernet continues to blur boundaries with her latest, surreal visual for her single “Acid Niger,” (off her acclaimed album Poèmes Pulvérisés) directed by Delphine Diallo.
Léonie Pernet released Poèmes Pulvérisés, an album that deepens her instinct for poetry, channeling it through resistance, solidarity, and moments of raw introspection. Its cover, shot by Brooklyn-based French-Senegalese visual artist Delphine Diallo, marked the beginning of a collaboration rooted in shared vision and mutual trust.
That partnership finds a striking continuation in the new music video for “Acid Niger.” Once again, Pernet entrusts Diallo with the visual universe of her music, and the result is a bold, cinematic experiment shaped with Oracle Codex AI. Diallo views this technology as a dynamic archive where spiritual technologies, womb-based intelligence, and ancestral mythologies converge. It invites those prepared to disrupt false timelines and to craft new narratives. Composed of more than sixty animated images, the video transports us into vast, sacred landscapes of Niger.
Through an afro-futuristic and feminist lens, Diallo creates a utopia where fantasy amplifies the weight of reality. Within it are seeds of possible futures, anchored in Black feminine consciousness and freedom. Every frame, meticulously conceived, becomes a visual poem, in true Léonie Pernet fashion. Rather than offering a straightforward narrative, the music video progresses like a ritual, blurring the lines between the intimate and the universal, the earthly and the mythical.
