Hyacinthe Ouattara
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Organic Mood, D Galerie, Paris, France
2017
Cartographies Humaines, Galerie art-z, Paris, France
Travelling, Centre Culturel Max Juclier, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France
2016
Solo Show, SometimeStudio Gallery, Paris, France
2015
Parcours, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Villejuif, France
Le hublot, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
2013
« Yaalà », Alliance Française Accra, Ghana.
Gestes et expressivités, médiathèque Saint-Pons, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
Hyacinthe Ouattara dans l'arène, Institut Français, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
2012
Dessins, Goethe Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
Galerie Taa Ka Na, Rennes, France
Promenade, Villa Yiri Suma, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
2009
Mémoire d'hier, Villa Sikandra, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa
Dialogues, techniques mixtes sur papier, Afikaris, Online exhibition
2018
Biennale d'art Contemporain DAK'ART OFF 2018, DAKAR, Sénégal
Trêve d'exotisme, en collaboration avec Galerie Nosbaum Reding-Galerie Atiss, Brasserie Clausel, Luxembourg
2017
« PARTCOURS » 6ième édition, Galerie Atiss, Dakar, Sénégal
2016
EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN D'AFRIQUE, La Fabrique Culturelle des Abattoirs, Casablanca, Maroc
L'alchimie des Formes, Espace Bastides, Valence-sur-Baïse, France
ARTCOP 22, Marrakech, Maroc
18° Biennale Internationale "Petit Format de papier", Musée du Petit Format, Nismes et Ecoles des Arts de Braine-l'Alleud, Belgique
2015
Art en Vrac (9* Rencontre des Arts Contemporains), Salies-de-Béarn, France
Just Make Art, Galerie Joseph, Paris, France
Galerie Goldenberg, Paris, France
Galerie du Parc, Joué-lès-Tours, France
Espace Culturel de la Douve, Langeais, France
2014
Le Chêne (Centre de Création Alternatif), Villejuif, France
Espace Culturel Anes Art'Gonne, Evres-en-Argonne, France
17° Biennale Internationale « Petit Format de Papier », Musée du Petit Format, Nismes et ULB Culture, Bruxelles, Belgique
2013
L'Ancien Cercle Artistique, Tournai, Belgique
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Tamines, Belgique
Cité des Arts, Chambéry, France
Mouvement, Espace Culturel Fil Bleu, Lomé, Togo
L'Art Burkinabè en mouvement, Chapelle des Pénitents Gris, Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, France
2012
Ouagadougou ! Soit dit en passant/Nebenbei, Berlin, Allemagne
Mondes en Scène, Galerie G, Paris, France
Musée du Marbre de Rance, Belgique
2011
Souffles, Villa Yiri Suma, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
Galerie Taa Ka Na, Rennes, France
« Ouagadougou ! Soit dit en passant/Nebenbei bemerkt », Galerie der HBK Saar (Hochuleschule der Bildenden Künste Saar), Saarbrücken, Allemagne
Promenade, Villa Yiri Suma, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
2010
Encres et pailles, Goethe Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso
Art from West Africa, Kalgoorlie/Perth, Australie
RESIDENCES
2016
La Fabrique Culturelle des Abattoirs, Casablanca, Maroc
2013
Cité des Arts, Chambéry, France
Espace Culturel Fil Bleu, Lomé, Togo
2011
L'aciérie de Völklingen, la Völklingen Hütte (en partenariat avec l'école des Beaux-Arts de Saabrücken), Allemagne
You often work with series. Why?
I work like a musician. I compose my series of artworks in a manner akin to the production of a record. Each embodies an aesthetic, social or philosophical area of research and exploration, whilst still supplementing one another and echoing similar messages and feelings.
How did you have the idea to draw "human cartographies”? What do they represent for you?
This idea of human cartographies came to me in 2015 when I started to observe the Parisian urban space. When I was going out and taking public transport, I was observing the corridors of the Parisian metro and I had a kind of silent discussion. I saw it like a human flow moving quickly while keeping a certain physical distance. I was a little bit shocked. I wanted to represent these parts of cells like traces of my memory of the world I belong to. I wanted to link these lines in my drawings, to link people together, to ensure that none of the characters are alone.
Your body of work has no limit, including installations, sculpture, performance, and painting. How do you choose which medium you work with?
I always saw my practice as echoing life and the space surrounding us: an infinite and undetermined space. I think that the time I have won’t allow me to explore everything. There is then a kind of absolute emergency to experience and explore everything. I consider markets and flea markets like open sky museums. I also listen to what happens around me. The choice of mediums is unexpected. It is for me, like a call, a necessity to choose a specific medium depending on what I want to express. It can come from a state of anger, from a picture, a song, or a basic observation of the world. I suddenly have images coming to my mind. This is how my creations come to life.
