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. 0% buyers' fees will be added to the auction price. NO SALES FEES