Jess Atieno

Past is Prologue I, 2022183 x 183cmPrice on Request

Details

MaterialGalleryLocation

serigraph on canvasGalerie Cécile FakhouryAbidjan

Description

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The artwork presents a striking juxtaposition of black-and-white imagery and vibrant green foliage. The composition features a large crowd of individuals, their faces obscured by the heavy contrast and overlapping figures. The overall effect is one of chaos and density, with the verdant plant life creating a sense of enclosure around the densely packed human forms. The artist's style employs a bold, graphic approach, utilizing high contrast and the interplay of positive and negative space to convey a sense of social unrest or political upheaval. The historical context suggests this work may be a commentary on issues of human rights or social justice. ...

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Artist

Jess Atieno

B.1991, Kenyan

Jess Atieno maintains a practice informed by inquiries on place, home and dispossession through the lens of the postcolonial. Atieno sees herself as carrying inscriptions of a colonial past. Studying as an adult in the US made her increasingly unable to situate herself in a static reality of belonging. With this inspiration, Atieno time travels into history through its material remains: historical photographs, maps and documents, employing them in prints, installations and tapestry. She turns to the idea of place as the transformative site of hybridity that offers alternative strategies for and models of representation within the post-colonial. ...

Jess Atieno: Artworks

Jess AtienoI also don’t know, 2020Price on Request

Jess AtienoIt is kind of you to take off your hat, 2020Price on Request

Jess AtienoOf Ghostly Silences And Constant Yearnings I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoBikra, 2023Price on Request

Jess AtienoBroken to be made whole, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoHauntings I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoHauntings II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoI am the glory that you seek, the destruction, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoIbada, 2023Price on Request

Jess AtienoIt is kind of you to take off your hat, 2020Price on Request

Jess AtienoMemories of this place I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoMemories of this place II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoOf Ghostly Silences and Constant Yearnings, nullPrice on Request

Jess AtienoOf Ghostly Silences And Constant Yearnings II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoPast is Prologue, 2021Price on Request

Jess AtienoPast is Prologue I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoPast is Prologue II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoPast is Prologue III, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoPast is Prologue IV, 20227000 EUR

Jess AtienoPlace, Belonging I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoPlace, Belonging II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoTake me to your river, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoTangents of place, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoThe Weight of Whispers, 2021Price on Request

Jess AtienoThis Is my body, which Is given for you I, 20227000 EUR

Jess AtienoThis Is my body, which Is given for you II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoTrance I, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoTrance II, 2022Price on Request

Jess AtienoWeight of whispers, 2021Price on Request

Jess AtienoFragments (I), 20235500 EUR

Jess AtienoFragments (III), 20235500 EUR

Jess AtienoFragments (II), 20235500 EUR

Jess AtienoHe gathers the loaters of the sea into jars. He puts the deep into storehouse, 2023Price on Request

Jess AtienoI contain multitudes, 2023Price on Request

Jess AtienoIn the time of kings & queens, 2023Price on Request

Jess AtienoLook, see, I have clothed myself in your love II, 2023Price on Request

Gallery

Galerie Cécile Fakhoury

Abidjan, Paris, Dakar

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. ...