Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to participate for the first time in the Art Basel Miami fair, which will take place from December 3 to 5, 2025, with a selection of new works by the following artists:
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
Carl-Edouard Keïta
Rachel Marsil
Roméo Mivekannin
Cheikh Ndiaye
Ouattara Watts
Through this selection of new works, the gallery’s artists redraw and question the contours of history, the circulation of people, images and beliefs, as well as our relationship to time and space.
Their unique perspective resonates with Miami, a city located at the crossroads of the Americas, open to both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. These artists, often rooted between Africa, the Americas and Europe, tell personal and collective stories that are inscribed within a multipolar and mixed history.
Their research draws in particular on portraiture and self-portraiture as tools for investigating identities and power. It relies on archives and architecture, but also on a free exploration of spirituality and consciousness. In dialogue with the works of writers and thinkers from the Caribbean such as Glissant, Gilroy or Césaire, they take part in a global discussion on contemporary issues.
Ouattara Watts (1957, Abidjan) has a dense pictorial practice made of symbols and colors, exploring spiritual connections that transcend geography and nationality. Influenced by his Ivorian origins as much as by his belonging to the New York art scene, Watts has developed a pictorial vocabulary that blends abstraction, figuration and visual writing.
Cheikh Ndiaye (1970, Senegal) offers a visual interpretation of anthropology and architecture, recounting the social and cultural history of West African cities through his paintings. Cinema, both as an object and as a building, serves as a privileged prism for narrating the evolution of African cities from independence to the present day.
Dalila Dalléas Bouzar (1974, Algeria) diverts the classical codes of painting to create reparative forms that challenge dominant narratives. She creates a space for the transmission and reappropriation of female and colonized bodies.
Roméo Mivekannin (1986, Côte d’Ivoire) infiltrates Western iconography and reverses the relationship between viewer and viewed. His paintings on textile and velvet allow bodies to emerge from the darkness and reclaim their own image.
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux (1995, Guadeloupe) depicts his entourage in intimate and introspective portraits, immersed in the softness of a protective memory that is often imbued with the texture of Caribbean lace.
Carl-Edouard Keïta (1992, Côte d’Ivoire) builds an aesthetic at the crossroads of influences, drawing from Constructivist and Cubist movements as well as from African traditional arts and jazz. This blend of references, which the artist masterfully appropriates and reinterprets to create his own universe, resonates with Paul Gilroy’s notion of the “Black Atlantic.”
Rachel Marsil (1995, France) explores identity through a vibrant and hybrid practice combining textile, painting and installation. Her work delves into fragmented family archives and reclaims personal narratives beyond external gazes. Blending African and European influences, her figures evolve in a space between memory and dreams.
