"Because the Ivory Coast has not yet said everything about its children, because it is looking for the best voices of its maturity, it is essential that art expresses itself in its diversities and its common passions. Art is certainly a great comfort to express visions, feelings, intuitions: so many dreams that disturb and mark a life... Thus, the artist offers through his works the wave of a feeling that can reach everyone and make him love and live the Ivory Coast of today and tomorrow. In order to elaborate for it the blossoming of an identity of heart."
Roger NIYIGENA KARERA
Curator
Inspired by "Cote d'Ivoire, soleil de nos cœurs" by Béatrice Agbaté-Lagos
- Urban life -
Go down to Adjamé Liberté 220, the shanty town and the atmosphere created by Painter Obou, proud ambassador of the Dan culture. An incursion into the intimate for once desired. A visit surrounded by the modules of a small city, where life, however difficult, remains warm and colourful.
- The beauty of nature -
Wander through Jean Servais Somian's living forest. Here you will find fragments of life in refuge, carried by the poetic breeze of Ana Zulma. Consider this an essential stopover in Grand-Bassam, in the gentle embrace of the memories of photographer Ly Lagazelle.
- The human in connection -
It is then time to go and meet the lives that animate the beautiful Babi. You are welcomed by the wisdom of Pascal Konan and his questioning of the paradoxical inaction of a humanity in constant
in constant effervescence.
The pedagogy of links and their importance then dance on the coloured lines of Cédric Tchinan. A research that complements that of Ezan Franck, whose fascinating universe is a research on the value of the Self. A bewitching dialogue between these two twin brothers.
- Nature to be saved -
Finally, enter Aristide Kouame's house and decode the union of colours and speech within the material. A research that aims to challenge but also to unite for the one that makes us live.
This overview of the Ivorian scene takes you on an introspective journey to the heart of human unity. Let yourself be carried away and meditate without moderation because Babi is sweet.
Mary-Lou Ngwe-Secke
Curator of the 193 Gallery
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