About

Up close, burlap, tote bags, denim... fabrics overlap, intertwine, and bind
together; a patchwork emerges, and materials that were once separate
now form a unified canvas. As you step back, human forms manifest, and
with a few strokes of white, a face appears.
Born in 1989 in Abidjan, in the Abobo district, visual artist Ange Arthur
Koua draws from the spirituality and legends of his people, the Agni (part
of the Akan group), to deconstruct the borders drawn by man. In 2002,
like many Ivorians, he and his family were forced to flee when the civil
war broke out. Upon their return after the end of the …