Aboubakar Fofana Installation view. Photo © ellelens.com
A tree… they saw many, many things… wars, conflicts, and also they hear many secrets…
Aboubakar Fofana, Artist
Aboubakar Fofana with his work. Photo © ellelens.com
Liza Lemsatef Cunningham chatted to artist Aboubakar Fofana about his work, its meaning, and his unique process of contemporary art-making inspired by traditional techniques and materials from Mali, West Africa, and his background as a painter and calligrapher.
Fofana’s striking installation Les Arbres a Bleus is currently on display as part of COTTON : Global Threads at the Whitworth Art Gallery, and the artist also gives his impressions of the exhibit, describing which pieces he found particularly resonant within the exhibition.
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