Biography
Trained at the National School of Industrial Design in Paris, at the Olorun Ouaga Foundation, but also at the school of life.
Hamed Bransonka Ouattara, expresses himself through paintings, sculptures and installations. His singular design is inspired by our achievements, instruments already existing in African habits, such as donut frying pans, or doors and metal windows of makeshift houses. Everything about his surroundings is an inspiration. Then from old metal oil barrels, he transforms this raw material to give it another use and very often the functionality finalizes his process. His creations are innovative and extremely contemporary armed with unprecedented resistance propelling them into a certain timelessness.
Rooted in spirituality and ancestral African values, sharing respect and above all transmitting that of the ancestors, he devotes a deep respect to what existed, to those who existed, to
our ancestors. For him, we cannot create without accepting, valuing and accepting what has been done before us, we cannot build without making roots on the work of our predecessors.
We also have a duty to think about future generations, a duty to organize and plan the transmission of our knowledge, to also feed the loop of knowledge that too often
evaporates with the disappearance of eminent people. He would like to stop legitimizing this quote:
In Africa when an old man dies, a library burns down by Amadou Hampâte Bâ.
Hamed Bransonka Ouattara has over 25 years of experience and his works have been featured in museums and galleries around the world.
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