This wooden artwork features a distinctive rustic texture, with visible grain and weathered tones of brown and orange. The composition is dominated by geometric shapes, including triangles, rectangles, and a central symbol resembling a compass or a stylized star. The artwork appears to employ a minimalist, abstract style, emphasizing form and symbolic elements over realistic representation. Based on the weathered appearance and the abstract symbolism, this piece likely reflects the artist's intention to explore themes of nature, spirituality, or the human connection to the natural world. ...
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. ...
