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GHISLAIN BROWN-KOSSI
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©Seong Goo Kim
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
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“Ma pratique explore les tensions entre mémoire, appartenance et identité, à travers des œuvres mêlant symboles, matières et langages visuels contemporains. J’assemble textile, plâtre, peinture et collage pour créer des surfaces-objets où chaque symbole agit comme un fragment d’histoire, de territoire ou de croyance. En creusant et superposant la matière, j’invite à une lecture sensible comme des palimpsestes culturels. Mes œuvres témoignent : elles parlent d’exil, d’héritage, de frontières invisibles. Elles activent une mémoire fragmentée, faite de migrations et de liens réinventés.
Cette approche, que je nomme Archaeological Pop Art, puise dans mon parcours multiculturel et mes racines africaines. Elle interroge la symbolique universelle et la matérialité de l’appartenance, en dialogue avec les langages du design, du digital et du textile.”
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ARTWORKS
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ARTIFACT SERIES
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The Artifact series unfolds through clean forms, dense textures and engraved symbols that form a visual language both minimalist and deeply resonant. Each piece operates as a contemporary stele, a threshold object suspended between past and present, design and spirituality, silence and meaning.
At the heart of these compositions lie vertical columns of recessed signs, repeated or isolated, cutting through bold fields of color. These symbols, drawn from ancient references but purposefully decontextualized, awaken collective memory while remaining open to personal interpretation. Ghislain navigates the space between sacred codification and visual abstraction.
White, ever-present and textured, is far from neutral. It acts as an archaeological surface, inscribed with buried symbols like a quiet palimpsest. Formal tensions, between void and form, balance and rupture, surface and depth, give the works a vibrant, almost tactile materiality.
Through their monumentality, frontality and rhythmic structure, Ghislain's Artifacts become visual meditations. Each piece suggests a symbolic passage, a portal, a marker both personal and universal. A sensitive exploration of how we relate to signs, memory, and the unseen.
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