Visual Elements: This artwork features a striking composition of contrasting colors and shapes. The predominant palette consists of muted shades of black, white, and gray, with splashes of pink adding depth and vibrancy. The overall impression is one of ethereal, dreamlike quality, achieved through the use of soft, blurred forms and dripping, abstract patterns.
Subject Matter: The image depicts two silhouetted figures, seemingly immersed in a surreal, atmospheric environment. The figures are shrouded in a veil-like drapery, obscuring their individual features and creating a sense of mystery and ambiguity.
Artistic Style and Technique: The artwork exhibits a contemporary, expressionistic style, with the artist employing a range of techniques, including gestural mark-making, layering, and the use of mixed media. The result is a captivating and evocative visual experience that challenges the viewer's perception and interpretation.
Context: This piece may be interpreted as a metaphorical exploration of the human condition, the complexities of identity, and the relationship between the individual and their surrounding environment. The artist's intention may be to invite the viewer to engage with these themes and consider the emotional and psychological aspects of the human experience. ...
Since his childhood, Bamouin Sinzé has transported himself into an inner world, a world of chimeras in which he can gather himself. The plastic gesture allows him to give life to the figures that inhabit him, to give shape to the shadows. If this universe is not tangible, it is not necessarily non-existent. For Bamouin Sinzé, each of us has an intimate and specific knowledge of it, but only some of us have the curiosity or the temerity to assume it and embrace it.
Bamouin Sinzé, with a candle in his hand, draws lines, circles and curves in the air under his upside down canvas, most of the time at night, like invisible writing. The smoke transcribes these gestures on the canvas by grey and vaporous, fragile marks. The evanescence thus appears to be at the centre of his work. The artist seeks to represent a fragment of immortalized time, to seize the impalpable, to represent what inexorably ends up disappearing. ...
Galerie Cecile Fakhoury opened its doors in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in September 2012. In May 2018, the gallery inaugurated its second space in Dakar, Senegal and a showroom in Paris, France. Shortly after, in March 2020, a new project space dedicated to emerging artists from Africa opened in Abidjan. In October 2021, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury inaugurated another gallery, opening in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promotes contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora by providing visibility to the artistic diversity and creative spirit from the continent. Through its programming of solo and group exhibitions, participation in international art fairs, biennales, and collaboration with international galleries, Cecile Fakhoury is a leading force putting contemporary African art on the global map. The artists represented by the gallery are distinguished by their cultural identities and stories, they create a new language that crosses geographical boundaries and familiarities. They are observers of the world they live in, critics of society, and committed to their positions living within complex histories. In turn, they ask us to reconsider our own relation to the world. ...
