Salifou Lindou

France

Paris

AFIKARIS Gallery

Drawing

Bergère #4

Bergère #3

Les Politiciens #8

Les Politiciens 

La lectrice

L'exode et la famille

Jeunes garçons dans la rue

Les Politiciens #10

Les politiciens #9

Mère, Fille et Petits Enfants 

Le débat 

Young people

There is no darkness in you 4

There is no darkness in you 3

Portrait #3

Portrait #2

Boxeur 6

Boxeur 4

Boxeur 5

Sejiro Avoseh

Painting

Mad Police 

FROM THE LATIN WORD "RESISTERE: TO MAKE A STAND AGAINST", THE EXHIBITION "RÉSISTE" SHOWCASES WORKS BY SEJIRO AVOSEH AND SALIFOU LINDOU.

The dynamic stroke of Salifou Lindou reveals the inside of human beings, their strengths and weaknesses. The faces Sejiro Avoseh depicts, distorted due to violence and injustice, are the victims of their time, the martyrs of contemporary history. The vocabulary and personal style of the two artists testifies an art in resistance. The pictorial violence reflects the social conflicts and daily horrors, as well as internal conflicts  faced by human beings. Whilst Salifou Lindou explores "the infinite resistance of humans regarding the traumas of existence", Sejiro Avoseh witnesses the history of his country, echoing its turmoil. He denounces abuses of power and stands up for a new era of freedom. If Salifou depicts a global fight involving the whole of humanity, Sejiro Avoseh narrows his analysis on specific events.

Thus, "RÉSISTE" puts into perspective the very notion of resistance at two levels, through the gaze of both artists. They free themselves from the established rules and create their own world. They reinterpret the human figure, extending the tradition of the portrait.

In his portraits, Goya focussed on the irregularity of bodies to represent a reality, judged as unrepresentable. He fed his visual universe with popular references to enrich his painting, as well as to provide a time frame. Violence in the arts often expresses a social conflict. Violence is a controversial topic. However, the specific palette the artists develop to depict it enhances their practice and documents their time. 

In the work of Sejiro Avoseh, the act of creation is violent in itself. He decomposes and disfigures his characters. He tears and burns his canvases. The artworks become hybrid beings, often made of differing pieces of fabric sewn together, sometimes of newspapers and magazines cut-outs. Cuttings rise from his canvases, like an emaciated and suffering body and as an illustration of the violence the flesh suffers. The canvas here Is an experimentation ground in which the violence of history operates. It embodies and lives the horrors Sejiro Avoseh tells through his work. It becomes the victim of a creative brutality, the flag of the distorted faces, witnesses of their time.

RÉSISTE

RÉSISTE

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