Oris (série de 40 têtes), 2022

by Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya

Painting : mixed media 42 x 34 cm

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Painting: mixed media

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42 x 34 cm Height x Width x Depth

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Artwork location: France

2022, Felt pen, collage, coffee, Indian ink, wood bark, canvas on paper laid down on wood.

The work Yoruba Trinity, the experience of matter according to IFA and the series of heads (Oris), produced on the occasion of the exhibition OBJECTS IN MOTION WILL STAY IN MOTION (An in depth conversation with the Ori), are an extraordinary gateway to its unique universe, as much by their aesthetics as by their symbolism. They are a visual transcription of the spiritual concept of "Ori", a kind of "intuition", the voice and the engine that guides us. Literally translating to "head", "Ori" could echo in Western culture with the unconscious or the "superego". It is a being in being, with its own will, a spirit that has chosen a head and a body to incarnate.

The series of 40 Oris heads thus symbolizes all the variety and potential of the different "tastes" and shapes of the "head". “What is ours? "How to recognize her?" ". It is with our own identity that Kevin-Adémola comes to confront us. Because it is what makes us who we are. We must therefore know how to listen to each other to find the one that suits us. Sangosanya's works can therefore themselves be perceived as metaphysical but also "physical" (both visual and tactile) "guides" towards this alignment.

The contour of the heads are also composed of a checkerboard with small white-beige and black tiles which, like the world of Matrix, evokes the dreamlike universe of the artist's mind, an inner world in which we are here. projected as if to better manage to touch the essence of his soul.
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Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya

Kevin-Ademola Sangosanya

France  • 1996

Of French and Yoruba origin, Kevin-Ademola 

Sangosanya was born in Longjumeau (91) in 1996. Even if the environment in which he grew up did not intend him to become an artist, his mother being a scientist from a working class background and his father, a Nigerian immigrant, a former soldier, he felt a vital need to draw all day long at a very young age.

His mother encouraged him to take drawing lessons after college, but since he mostly painted monsters and dinosaurs, he was quickly directed towards a scientific career. At 15 he wants to be a paleontologist then a geneticist specializing in endangered species. His love for Nigeria, where he has traveled very often since his childhood to visit his grandparents, leads him to focus on endangered gorillas.

Thinking that the best way to protect them would be to allow them to live in an environment where they would not be hunted, he decided after his baccalaureate to focus on sustainable development and began studying agronomy engineering. At 17 he discovers independence and student life. He leaves the family nest to move closer to Paris and settles in residence in Cergy.

He did many internships abroad as part of his studies, including his graduation internship where he spent 8 months in Nigeria working on the conservation of forest species, reforestation, and the study of medicinal plants, food and sacred which make the link between the three areas that fascinate him, the preservation of culture, the sustenance of populations and spirituality.

In parallel to these strong experiences, he finds it difficult to settle for a simple life as a student in the suburbs. He quickly feels a void in his life that he does not see in his comrades. From his second year he resumed drawing and then quickly Graff under the pseudonym of "Lonely Jane". His graffiti-poems are enjoying growing success, but to go even further, he compulsively picks up objects in the street which become multiple supports for the creation of increasingly elaborate paintings-objects. But it was when he discovered the works of Kehinde Wiley, Kerry James Marshall and Jean-Michel Basquiat that he really clicked.

The stereotype he carries in him of the artist as necessarily being an old white man is swept away. " At that time, I said, OK, it's good, you've had the thing in you since the beginning, it's been several months since it started boiling, you start doing graffiti, drawing, picking up stuff, now you have to go all out… I understood that it wasn't just a hobby, that there, it was devouring me not to create ". He begins to present his works in neighborhood exhibitions then in 2017, he is selected to participate in the exhibition "Artists Emerging" at the Carreau de Cergy After obtaining his engineering degree in tropical agronomy, he also joined the REZOEST workshops in Pré-Saint-Gervais. His very personal work centers on the quest for oneself and the reflection on one's own identity.

First of all the "Who am I?" ". Aware that we are still formatted by our condition of gender, age or culture, he understands that only art can allow him to transcend himself. For him, a young, black, mixed-race man, bearer of a double culture and vehicle of a pejorative image of African culture and identity, the important thing is to question this mixed-race identity by understanding its origin but also by building a new language to offer unprecedented access. “ When I was younger, I felt a lot of anger, an energy that I couldn't channel. I realized that this frustration came from the fact that I could express much more complex ideas in French or in English than in Yoruba and that when thought is slowed down, and you don't have the tools, this frustration leads to anger. »

He then began professional training for a Yoruba Language diploma at INALCO to complete his empirical knowledge of the language while developing his own plastic language from numerous symbolic elements such as nails, cauries, writing and use of materials that he produces himself from plants or found objects.

Trainings:

2019-2022: Studies and vocational training Diploma in Languages. Yoruba. INALCO. (In progress).

2020-2021: REZOEST workshops. Le-Pre-Saint-Gervais.

2015-2019: Engineering degree in tropical agronomy. Tropical Plant Production. ISTOM.


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