Willow Evann

Willow Evann was born in 1985, he lives and works in Ile-de-France. A protean artist with multiple influences, Willow Evann is a visual artist, dancer and photographer. Embodying an in-between, he comes from a housing estate in Bondy and is originally from the Ivory Coast. At the heart of his artistic practice, Willow Evann studies his origins and his identity, fruit of the African and French colonial history. Willow Evann's work focuses on the representation of black people evolving in the Western space. To do this, the artist uses several mediums but wood quickly becomes his material of choice. Indeed, this material that he learns to handle alone becomes in his hands a real metaphor of the transport of memory. "I question the transport of black memory in Western spaces. Where do we come from, where do we belong, we the diaspora who change continents and remake our lives on a land that did not see us born? My research is also strongly marked by the misrepresentation of the Black Man in the Western space that pushes for discrimination." In 2020, the artist participates in the group exhibition curated by the artist JR within the Centquatre and then as part of the Parcours Saint-Germain with a photographic installation arranged in the public space.