Soro Kafana's favourite material is wood, with which he discusses and communicates. If his work can sometimes seem like a struggle, an ordeal, nothing is imposed on wood. Soro Kafana negotiates with the material, consults with it, its forms and the experience it carries. By confronting the wood he gets from a tree, he confronts himself, the otherness that exists within him, thus questioning his identity, between ancestral African traditions and cultures from elsewhere. 

In Soro Kafana's work, the presence of the double is not disturbing. Rather, it takes the form of a suggestion for introspection, a humble recognition of the eternal evolution of things, a humility that the artist learns every day in contact with the trees, the great sages of the forest.

Galerie Cécile Fakhoury