Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Issouf Sanogo.
Sadikou Oukpedjo
Born in 1975, Ketao, Togo
Lives and works in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Overview
The gesture and expressiveness of Sadikou Oukpedjo are driven by doubts and apprehensions of the world as he sees it. For him, the animal world is a source of essential questioning for man humans to find his place in our societies, at the risk to lose sight of certain values, traditions and precepts of nature. The process of questioning our deep origins finds its roots in the human need of gaining access to the knowledge of oneself, through multiple and ancestral attempts - cosmogony, rituals, s...Read more
Selected artworks