This abstract sculpture features an exaggerated, angular figure formed from a beige, earthy-toned material, possibly wood or stone. The composition is geometric and asymmetrical, with bold, intersecting planes creating a dynamic, fragmented silhouette. The artist employs a minimalist style, highlighting the inherent sculptural qualities of the medium to suggest the human form through an unconventional, almost cubist approach. The work's simplicity and rugged, unrefined aesthetic suggest a modernist sensibility, inviting contemplation of the relationship between the human figure and abstract 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. ...
