Yann Stéphane Bisso

Yann Stéphane Bisso shapes identity, memory, and diasporic experience into painting, conjuring dreamlike landscapes where imagination and recollection intertwine. His practice merges elements of realism and surrealism to create dreamlike landscapes that oscillate between imagination and recollection, often incorporating symbolic motifs drawn from his cultural heritage and animist traditions. Bisso’s work engages with personal and collective histories, reflecting on the tension between rootedness and displacement. He frequently references oral narratives, traditional symbols, and everyday objects, transforming them into visual languages that connect the intimate and the sociopolitical. His compositions often play with scale, color, and texture to evoke a sense of place, memory, and temporal layering. Through these painterly explorations, Bisso interrogates the connections between the body, environment, and cultural memory, creating immersive works that encourage reflection on heritage and contemporary experience. By combining symbolic imagery with experimental approaches to form and space, Bisso constructs paintings that are at once poetic and socially resonant, bridging personal experience with broader historical and cultural contexts. His practice emphasizes the transformative potential of art to explore identity, history, and belonging. ...