Daouda Traoré
Born in 1987, in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Daouda TRAORE graduated in Plastic Arts from the National Institute of Arts (INA) of Bamako and ended as top of the 2013 class of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers MultiMédia Balla Fasseké KOUYATE.
Teacher of plastic arts at the public high school of Sikasso, the daily lives of his students inspire him. The choice of materials is linked to his environment, which in a random way, provides him with used sheets, tin cans, bags of millet, wool strings and iron wires that he transforms thanks to a wide range of techniques.
The result: unexpected textures that enliven the characters and the everyday situations he presents.
Implicitly, the artist adds a jumble of letters dispatched in his works, thus composing his unreadable poems which carry the message of the importance of education and the transmission of knowledge, of the values which guide him as a man and educator in the current chaos of Mali.