Jean David Nkot's work is that of resistance, that of a man's fight against the indifference, lies and forgetfulness of the international community and governments. His artistic approach is there to remind and question the public on the words to which administrations or institutions have committed themselves. These founding texts drawn up by the UN remain colossi with feet of clay. And to recall, for example, this extract from article 2: No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.

Jean David questions and contradicts the words and ills of man. He addresses them, without concession, using an "epistolary painting" that is far too large to be hidden in a letterbox. The truth cannot be kept quiet!

He structures his plastic approach with postage stamps, envelopes, postcards, installations written on houses or giant road maps which constitute a part of his creation. He reminds us that all resilience passes through the written word, he thus uses printing techniques by using the repetition of stencilled stamps which he diverts and which become, in spite of themselves, by their infinite succession, the echo of weapons. Postal stamps are diverted. 

The journey here is one of no return. His works are intended to free these portraits of victims marked by the seal of apathy which characterises the complicit face of the world. Jean David looks at our wounds, our deep wounds, and maps them out a path which, in spite of itself, binds people closely together, making them definitively human.