The artwork depicts a striking wooden sculpture composed of intersecting angular shapes and planes. The predominant colors are the natural tones of the wood, ranging from light tan to darker brown hues. The overall composition creates a dynamic, abstract form that appears to be in motion, with sharp edges and a sense of tension. The sculptural technique seems to involve skillful carving and shaping of the wooden material, showcasing the artist's mastery of form and their exploration of abstract, geometric sculptural language. This piece likely reflects the artist's experimental approach to contemporary sculpture and their interest in challenging traditional perceptions of materiality and form. ...
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. ...
