Adjaratou Ouedraogo
Adjaratou Ouedraogo finished a residency at the École des Filles, an art space directed by Françoise Livinec. She painted 23 works, taking a new step in her pictorial exploration by working on colour contrasts and simplifying forms. Her starts with an element of abstraction, a construction of colours, shapes, balances and spaces. The figures of her traumatic childhood gradually emerge from her personal history, which she seeks to repair.
Also, she works within the limits of her canvas, like the sculptor of the prehistoric masterpiece “Bison licking itself “*, with its head turned towards its body to lick its flank. This limitation in space forces his characters into a thousand poetic contortions.
She revolutionises the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, invents lively and poetic writing and explores a new voice in contemporary African art.