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SADIKOU OUKPEDJO

                              Divination (2018 - 2024)

                           162 x 122 cm

                           médias mixtes sur toile

                                 

  • Titre de la diapositive

    Combat

    2024

    151 x 125 cm

    Technique mixte, huile sur toile de jute

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Sadikou Oukpedjo 

Born 1970 in Ketao, Togo

Lives and works in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire


Trained in the studio of Paul Ahyi, a Togolese artist and a major figure in West African modernism, Sadikou Oukpedjo is part of the continuity of the history of African forms.


After moving to Bamako, he settled in Abidjan in 2013, where he devotes himself primarily to painting, drawing and sculpture, experimenting with pastels, chalk, pigments and ceramics.


His half-man-half-animal characters question notions of origin and heritage. For Sadikou, tales, cosmogony, rituals and witchcraft are all attempts and tools created by humans to find their place in the world and learn to know themselves.


Exploring the ambiguous relationship between humans and their animality, Sadikou questions our very existence and conscience.


His work is driven by a constant and profound questioning of our humanity in relation to our animality. 


Sadikou Oukpedjo seeks to understand the violences of history.The invisible, the unknown and the hidden run like a red thread through the exploration of human consciousness, all seen as part of the same quest.





GROUP SHOWS :


2024

  • Biennale de Venise. Pavillon Côte d'Ivoire


2023

  • Let’s peel it back, dot.ateliers, Accra, Ghana


2022

  •  TEFAF New-York, Galerie Maria Wettergren, New-York, USA


2021

  • La clairière d’Eza Boto, Jardin des plantes de Rouen, France 


2020

  •  1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech, Maroc
  • Tu es beau comme tu es, Exposition à ciel ouvert, Dakar, Sénégal 


2019

  • Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norvège 
  • Parc des sculptures, Palais de Lomé, Togo
  • 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Londres, RU
  • Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud


2018

  •  Les Fantômes de l’Afrique : Siriel Rellik, Dakar, Sénégal 
  • Des Hommes et des Totems, Galerie Le Manège, Dakar, Sénégal 
  •  Pioneer Works, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New-York, Etats-Unis
  • Palimpsest, African Studies Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israël
  • 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Londres, Royaume-Uni 


2010

  • Prix Médiatine, Wolubilis, Brussels (Belgique)


Collections :


  • Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Mohammed VI Museum, Rabat, Maroc
  • Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Jaffa, Israël
  • Fondation Blachère, Apt, France 
  •  Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar
  • Palais de Lomé, Togo 
  • Collection Jom, Dakar, Sénégal
  • Collection Gervanne + Matthias Leridon,   Paris, France


SOLO SHOWS :


2023

  • 3ème edition de la Biennale de la sculpture, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso


2022

  • Mémoires contemporaines d’un continent, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Paris, France


2020

  • Stasis, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Sénégal • Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain FIAC, Paris, France
  • Biennale de Dakar OFF, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Dakar, Sénégal 
  • Combat de coqs, Villa Soudan, Bamako, Mali 


2019

  • Silentium, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • The Council of Elders, Palais de Lomé, Togo 
  • Transcendental, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany


2018

  • Mutation, Nuit Blanche 2018, Cité internationale des arts de Paris, France


2016

  • Anima, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire 


2014

  • • Paintings, Blabla Bar Hippodrome, Bamako, Mali
  • Dans les rues d’Abidjan, Galerie Guirandou Arts Pluriels, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • Galerie Koffi-Yao, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire



Publications :


Renée Mussai, Eyes That Commit: Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers: A Visual Survey, London-New York, Prestel, 2023


Marc Sealy (Dir.), African Cosmologies. Photography, Time and the Other, Houston, FotoFest /Amsterdam, Schilt Publishing, 2020


Laylah Amatullah Barrayn & Adama Delphine Fawundu, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, New York, Eye & I Incorporated, 2017


Christine Eyene, Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender, Milano, Silvana, 2014.

Hélène Amouzou, Entre le papier peint et le mur, Brussels, Husson Éditeur, 2010.


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