Art Antwerp: Antwerp | Belgium
Bringing together six artists from diverse cultural and geographical backgrounds, this presentation explores how personal memories can resonate far beyond individual experience. Each artist begins with a place, a memory, a lived experience, or a cultural heritage, transforming it into a shared human story. A home, a city, a ruin, a shadow, or a family memory becomes a gateway to experiences we all recognize.
Fariba Boroufar (Iran) draws on memories of Iran's historic architecture, translating the colors, patterns, and forms of aging buildings into intricate embroidered textiles. Through the slow gesture of stitching, she preserves places that are disappearing, inviting us to reflect on the fragile landscapes that shape our identities.
Elolo Bosoka (Ghana) draws inspiration from his travels and movements between places—from Kumasi and Accra to Copenhagen, Clermont-Ferrand, Paris and Karlsruhe, where this series was made. His works emerge from the traces of everyday life: fragments of walls, windows, roads, receipts, maps and vehicles, carrying the marks of the people and places they have passed through. Rather than treating these found materials as blank surfaces, Bosoka approaches them with curiosity, transforming their accumulated traces of use into painterly gestures. In this way, the ordinary becomes a record of movement and encounter, connecting personal experience to a shared, often overlooked, human presence.
Saïdou Dicko (Burkina Faso) finds the origin of his practice in childhood memories as a shepherd, tracing the shadows of trees and animals across the ground. His photographs and drawings often depict children at play, celebrating the curiosity, freedom, and imagination of childhood. By turning shadow into a central figure, he dissolves differences and reminds us of the joy and humanity that connect us all.
Salifou Lindou (Cameroon) celebrates the quiet poetry of domestic life. Light, furniture, fabrics, and everyday interiors evoke the universal comfort of feeling at home—a place of refuge and belonging.
Mouhcine Rahaoui (Morocco) draws from the collective memory of Jerada, a mining town marked by economic decline. His work speaks of labor, loss, resilience, and solidarity, transforming a local history into a reflection on dignity and shared human experience.
Hervé Yamguen (Cameroon) creates bronze sculptures inhabited by hybrid human, animal, and plant forms. Rooted in his personal imagination, these metamorphic beings invite viewers to contemplate the interconnectedness of all living things and discover the universal within the intimate.
