Françoise Soulé Zinsou Duressé
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    • HERMAFRODEK 2019- >
      • the watchers
      • magiciens de la terre
      • afro hair portraits
      • souffle sur moi
      • black girl in search of her god
      • les jumeaux papillons
      • unquiet grave
    • UNTOUCHABLES 2005- >
      • paperbag test
      • afrolandscape
      • words become butterflies
      • dance with me
      • je suis ce que je suis
      • we are all the same under the sky
      • vagabonds of the caribbean
      • you are so smart
    • Pain/T 2001- >
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My practice moves effortlessly between the formal aesthetics of painting and drawing and site-specific installation formats, incorporating printmaking, ceramics, video, experimental sound, photography, and performance. At the heart of my artwork is a desire to tell stories - I am interested in using visual languages that are open enough to communicate global fragmented narratives like my own. I combine traditional draftsmanship with digital technology in order to create multilayered narratives that cannot be easily explained, contained within a single image or a single-screen film. My work invites the spectators to engage with the contemporary political realities of global race identity, exile and migration, social and cultural displacement, and move beyond the false dichotomy between observation and participation. I redraw the boundaries between anthropological-historical fact and personal fiction by investigating how one may regain access to the frozen moment of the image through the shards of individual memory and the prism of collective recollection.






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  • home
  • projects
    • HERMAFRODEK 2019- >
      • the watchers
      • magiciens de la terre
      • afro hair portraits
      • souffle sur moi
      • black girl in search of her god
      • les jumeaux papillons
      • unquiet grave
    • UNTOUCHABLES 2005- >
      • paperbag test
      • afrolandscape
      • words become butterflies
      • dance with me
      • je suis ce que je suis
      • we are all the same under the sky
      • vagabonds of the caribbean
      • you are so smart
    • Pain/T 2001- >
      • Pain/T
  • resources
    • artist statement
    • biography
    • contact