21.10 – 23.10.2022
AKAA
Carreau du temple, Paris, France
Car Dieu a tant aimé le monde
exhibition by young artist Assoukrou Aké
Echoing the theme of the ellipse Prize 2022, Assoukrou Aké presented an original series of engraved plywood.
A body of saving artworks
Exhibited artworks deal with the question of identity, resonating with the history of mixed-race people from the French colonies in Ivory Coast, from which the artist draws his family history.
By questioning the complexity of identity and the violence that stems from it, Assoukrou Aké evokes the emptiness and gap in his own personal construction.
Assoukrou Aké, the healing art
Through his artistic practice, from collage and painting to engraving and sculpture, he elaborates “healing” stories as a response to the violence theme and its mutation ability.
To translate this concept, he constructs and deconstructs image fragments by digging, cutting and tearing the material to empty it from its sense, inspired by academic painting, masters engravings, African tales or revisited cosmogonies.
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