Assoukrou Aké
Rituals and Creativity
In the rhythm of daily acts, creativity quietly takes shape. Artists show how repeated gestures, routines, and careful attention transform ordinary moments into meaningful practice. Through these rituals—whether in drawing, movement, or material exploration—art becomes a meditation, revealing how consistency, focus, and care shape both creative work and the evolving self.
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Working across installation, sculpture, engraving, and textile work, Assoukrou Aké approaches art making as a ritual encounter with memory. His practice unfolds through repeated gestures of marking, layering, and reconfiguring, allowing symbols to surface and return as personal and collective histories intertwine.
At the heart of this process lies a constellation of references - African mythologies, Enlightenment iconographies, sacred allegories, classical literature, and press photography. Within this layered terrain, recurring figures emerge like ritual signs: the spiral-faced silhouette that moves between anonymity and lineage, or the solemn horse that carries an epic weight. Even his carved wooden forms participate in this logic of repetition and transformation; the act of carving becomes a way of tracing what lies beneath the surface, revealing histories held quietly within the material.
Aligned with the spirit of Rituals and Creativity, Aké’s practice uses rhythm, translation, and return to revisit what has been fractured or obscured. His works become spaces where memory is neither resolved nor erased, but continually reshaped - offering glimpses of new solidarities and shared languages in formation.
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“ The characters that I bring to life in my work constitute, through fragments and through a kind of constellation, an archive of African consciousness that mixes the sacred and the profane to better reveal the essence of human life, that of a fragmented identity that needs to be reinvented. ”
- Assoukrou Aké
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