Ange-Frédéric Koffi
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Visual Elements: The image depicts a person wearing a bright red Vodafone-branded jacket and a black Yamaha motorcycle helmet, standing in front of a commercial garage setting. Subject Matter: The focal point of the image is the person, whose back is facing the camera, suggesting a focus on their attire and equipment rather than their identity. Artistic Style and Technique: The overall composition appears spontaneous, capturing a moment in time rather than a staged scene, lending a candid and documentary-like quality to the image. Context: The setting and the person's attire suggest this is a depiction of a Vodafone employee or representative, likely captured while on the job at the commercial garage in the background. ...
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Ange-Frédéric Koffi
Between image and object, the research of the Ivorian visual artist Ange-Frédéric Koffi builds an intimate and poetic geography that seeks to capture the state of grace of the journey. Moments of pause in a continuous displacement, his works have a temporality both furtive and meditative. Somewhere between the Ivory Coast, Senegal and Niger, the works in the exhibition capture what could have been only a reflection, a movement, a promise. One cannot help but look at Ange-Frederic Koffi's work in the light of a certain Ivorian school of photography in which the relationship to urban space and architecture is essential. But, shaped by his cross-border background, he draws on international references such as the particular connection to the French artist Marc-Camille Chaimovicz with whom he shares the desire to blur the lines: between art and design, between image and textile, or this way of mixing the intimate with a global vision whether political or social. ...