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Sanda Amadou was born and raised in 1978 in a Fulani community in Northern Benin. He holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics and received art education through residencies and master’s workshops. He lived and worked in Lagos for several years, but returned to Cotonou, Benin in 2019. From his early childhood he drew, fascinated by the culture of the nomadic Fulani, which he still studies and reinterprets. His works seem to obey a rigorous geometry and form complex architectures, which are simultaneously playful and surprisingly fragile. Lines, circles, triangles and quadrilaterals, semi-mathematical figures that are never perfect, connect Fulani symbols of natural life with ropes at the base. His images result in imaginary forms and grotesque figures that show a ragged vulnerability, ethereal and always in motion. They allow the viewer to glimpse an unreal essence.

Blooming I (L'épanouissement I)

2022

30 x 30 x 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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1750€

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Blooming II (L'épanouissement II)

2022

30 x 30 x 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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1750€

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Down to Earth (Retour à la source)

2022

125 x 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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6400€

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Forbidden zone I (Zone interdite I)

2022

78 x 60 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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2750€

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Forbidden zone II (Zone interdite II)

2022

78 x 60 cm
Mixed media on canvas
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2750€

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