This vibrant, abstract painting features a dynamic composition of bold colors and expressive shapes. The canvas is filled with a whimsical cast of fantastical creatures, their large, bulging eyes and toothy grins conveying a sense of playful, childlike wonder. The artist employs a highly gestural, textural style, with visible brushstrokes and layers of paint creating a sense of depth and movement. The overall tone is one of playfulness and imagination, inviting the viewer to engage with the work's surreal, dreamlike qualities. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to capture the boundless creativity and innocence of the human spirit. ...
Aboudia's work depicts the vitality and the unvarnished energy of a youth that gets by and manages; the smiles are a little nightmarish at times, but these broad smiles exalt their experience. This generation on the fringes of society is growing and taking on a new form. Its strength is becoming clearer as it is restructured. In each work swarms a multitude of lives, a breath of fresh air and noise, silhouettes seek their place in endlessly narrow spaces.
In Aboudia's canvases the presence of yesterday's Ziguéhis can be felt to the emergence and assertion of Nouchi. The friction of words, remixed sounds and dreams of someplace else brandished in signs of identity, resistant to the test of precarious everyday conditions.
His lines continually encapsulate the effervescence of a blossoming country, the subject of endless debates and demands. Abidjan is at the height of its ascension, a city of transformations. Now that it is beyond the crisis, it is attractive; a city of possibilities. Aboudia is lying in wait, he observes and buries himself in his metropolis. He closely follows any movement or changes.
The living dead, zombies that are more awake than ever are illuminated in his tableaux. Between the concrete and the sand Aboudia creates a fantasy, a spontaneous festival, a thriller straight out of coastal West Africa. ...
