This natural sculpture features a rustic, weathered wooden log with a prominent, intricate hole carved through its center. The warm, earthy tones and organic texture of the wood create a visually striking composition, while the hollow cavity adds an intriguing sense of depth and mystery. The artist's skilled craftsmanship is evident in the precise shaping and hollowing of the log, which likely draws inspiration from natural forms and the cycle of growth and decay. This minimalist, abstract work invites the viewer to contemplate the relationship between the material, the void, and the broader themes of nature and the human experience. ...
Soro Kafana's favourite material is wood, with which he discusses and communicates. If his work can sometimes seem like a struggle, an ordeal, nothing is imposed on wood. Soro Kafana negotiates with the material, consults with it, its forms and the experience it carries. By confronting the wood he gets from a tree, he confronts himself, the otherness that exists within him, thus questioning his identity, between ancestral African traditions and cultures from elsewhere.
In Soro Kafana's work, the presence of the double is not disturbing. Rather, it takes the form of a suggestion for introspection, a humble recognition of the eternal evolution of things, a humility that the artist learns every day in contact with the trees, the great sages of the forest. ...
