Lot n° 30
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Olga Yaméogo - Lot 30
Olga Yaméogo
San title
Oil on panel, 2011
Signed and dated on back
30 x 30cm
A LONG ROAD THAT COMES TO US
In the beginning, it's ochre, scorched earth that sticks to faces and
walls of houses. A first dust, a capital letter, laid down by wind and rain.
and rain. A color you take with you when you leave your village.
On her first canvases, dating back some thirty years, Olga Yaméogo was already talking about this obligatory movement.
this obligatory movement. The departure is constantly repeated. You have to plunge
into these violent shadows, as she painted them in 2002. Bodies hanging in the immense light
bodies hanging in the immense light, canvases crossed by barbed wire lines. It's a question of exile
of exile and uprooting. Of a vision that returns at night, through dreams and
and paintings.
In a film devoted to her by RFI (2019), Olga Yaméogo hints at her belated
late transition to painting, "as a need to build oneself differently.
Painting is part of a freedom she allows herself. The freedom to (re)find her place
between the land here, in Ouaga, and the land there, in the bluish vibrations
of the Toulouse plain. Each has its own era and each its own feelings. Now it's up to
to translate them.
Over the years, the feeling finds other resonances. Yet the themes
remain the same. Namely, the displacement men are forced to endure. The
2005-2010 are the years of migration. Forced, forbidden, cursed, resolved...
One of his latest series, "Partir (2014-2015)" is a reflection of this. Groups in
movement, slow gestures, immense fatigue, melancholy light. Africa is
is now far away. We're reminded of the immense plains of Central Europe. Same
same crowds, same moving misery. Because the earth is the same," she says,
poverty is identical, here or there."
In the beginning... and still today, Olga Yaméogo's painting is a constant reminder of displacement.
of displacement. But she now anchors in this mass of history
of history, the individual, the singular, the passing soul. Faces have begun to take shape
to take shape. They are searching for each other, their features fogged. And more clearly, the feeling
comes back to them.
It's such a fragile thing. The years 2010 and 2015 see her lingering over
memories. The look in a young girl's eyes, perhaps the image her
the pose of a little boy... These are late afternoons in the light
light that remembers. Ochres come back again, touches of sienna, brightness
also through an invisible curtain. Africa is just on the other side. We
hear the laughter of a child and the carefree side. Promised land, found land.
Roger Calmé (ABA mag')
References
Born March 25, 1966 in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Attended the
Koulouba school. After school, played with friends behind the airfield.
Moved to France in 1983.
Professional
Art therapy (Bordeaux), specialized educator, introductory training in
ethnopsychiatry, Georges Devereux Center (Paris).
Main exhibitions
1999 / Espace Saint Jérôme (collective), Toulouse.
2003 / Africajarc, Cajarc.
2004 / Musée des Arts derniers, Paris.
2008 / Prix Senghor (collective), Musée de la Poste and Musée du Montparnasse.
2012 / Paroles indigo, Espace Van Gogh, Arles.
2012 / Art en vrac, Salies-de-Béarn.
2015 / Art for Peace, UNESCO (collective)
2018 / Paroles indigo Espace Van Gogh, Arles
2020 / AWA / African Women Artists (collective), Art-Z, Paris
2021/ Wekre, Ouagadougou
2021/ AKAA/Also Known As Africa, Paris
2022/ Investec Cape town Art Fair
2022/ off de la Biennale de l'art africain contemporain, Dakar and St Louis.
Artistic and other residencies
2022/ residency at the cocoteraie des arts, Mondoukou, Ivory Coast
2022/Guardian of the Wekre festival, Ouagadougou
2022/residency at the Institut Français, St Louis, Senegal.
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