The stigma remains. We do not erase History, the experiences, these traumas which survive ephemeral amnesia.
The Approach
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Pierre Soulages. This was the name of my “master”, when painting imposed itself on me in 2009. Dark; both abstract and figurative, my artistic expression has often ventured on the steep slope of spirituality, on the winding paths of existential questions. She then moved towards the need to combine writing and drawing, before sinking - thanks to a long quest for identity - into the analysis of humans, taken in their social dimension.
My work today bears witness to human relationships, whether isolated or part of a set of individualities. It testifies to the obligation of cohabitation that falls to us as a species, and to all that results from it. An obsession therefore: the human being, his primary instincts, his inconsistencies, his reasoning animal logic, and finally his helplessness in the face of the monsters he himself has generated.
I am therefore deeply passionate about the Destruction-Reconstruction dynamic (what Phyllida Barlow affectionately called "The cycle of damage and repair") which has always shaped the world and human relationships. In the violence of everyday life. In the relationships that we have with others, and with ourselves In these cultural shocks which force us to reality; In these Selves which end up inconsistent, crushed by uncontrollable forces; We often try to dissolve into negation, as if the wounds had never existed.​
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My work commemorates the stigmata that nothing erases, the History that is not forgotten, these solitary and collective traumas that survive artificial or ephemeral amnesias.
I have recently been working with a sound recorder (July 2024). Recording the sounds of a frame being mounted, the sound of a canvas being stretched, the clicking of thestapler, the sound of the tools on the canvas... All these sounds that are part of creation, but which are completely invisible, precisely because we do not capture them. My art appeals to the senses ; it is also, beyond the dynamics that it embodies, an invitation to commune with creation.
The Technique
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I paint mostly with a knife. Perhaps a way of sublimating and transmitting the violence of human relationships. The work generally begins with a pencil drawing on paper. Then comes the testing of tones and colors on a tablet, before the creation invests the canvas. The painting is almost always done in two stages: the Primordial Work which is an attempt to embody the idea, and which will be "destroyed", to give life to the Transcended Work. This can last a few hours, a few days or weeks. I like to contemplate the "Destruction" until it becomes unbearable. This is how the mechanism of "Repair" is triggered, which inevitably leads to the crystallization of the stigmata.
Acrylic allows me to work quickly (I often work on several pieces at the same time), and the memory takes shape with various materials: oil pastel, woven raffia, adhesive pads, etc.
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May 2024: "Nuances de Bleu", solo show, restaurant Le Petit Plateau, Paris.
June 2020: "Le Père le Fils et moi", novel, Amazon KDP.
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October 2018: "Legem", novel, Amazon KDP.
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June 2017: collective exhibition (untitled) with Dominique Zinkpe (special mention LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2023), Tete Azankpo, Yaffa Kanfitine, Alphonse Sallah, Galerie AGAMA, Toulouse.
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January 2012: exhibition "L'Endroit et l'Envers", with Kpakpo Adotévi, Galerie AF, Lomé.
"Cunie", novel, L'Harmattan editions.
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May 2011: collective exhibition "Do It", Lomé French Institute.