Born in 1996 in Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ange-Frédéric Koffi spent part of his childhood across Africa, Asia, and Europe. He graduated from the Cantonal School of Art in Lausanne (ECAL), following a double academic background at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) and La Sorbonne – Saint-Charles in philosophy and art history.
His work focuses on the reception of images and objects. The materiality of images, as well as the different layers that compose them, plays a central role in his practice. Through a particular attention to the tangibility of photographic supports, he questions the ways in which images are perceived, as much as the ways in which objects are experienced.
One cannot help but consider Ange-Frédéric Koffi’s work in the light of a certain Ivorian school of photography, in which the relationship to urban space and architecture is essential. Shaped by his cross-border background, he also draws on a broader field of international references, notably in dialogue with French artist Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, with whom he shares a desire to blur boundaries: between art and design, between image and textile, and in this way of intertwining the intimate with a broader, whether political or social, perspective.