Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux

Born in 1995 in the West Indies on the island of Guadeloupe, Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux now lives and works in Paris. At the age of 8, Elladj leaves his native island for the Metropolis with his family. It is a total change, a physical, mental and cultural revolution. Through his works, the artist explores an open and vibrant approach to the relationship of peoples and imaginary. Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux operates a work of experimentation and documentation, focusing on heritage images, symbolic and Afro-Caribbean spiritualities. The artist focuses on the daily life, mythologies, iconography, beliefs, religious and cultural heritage of the Afro-Caribbean landscape. Evoking a plural identity, Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux tries to analyze, deconstruct and capture its fragments and communicating vessels. By merging found or familiar objects in the series of still life and painting, the artist gives us different levels of reading, social and historical. His work is a form of initiatory journey, a reappropriation of an ancestral self that goes through a confrontation with its part of night, before awakening to its own light. A passage from ignorance to self-knowledge that requires a "killing" of illusions. Beyond the physical, beyond the tangible, the painting of Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux is that of a wide open thought, that of the thought in sharing. Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. ...

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. ...