For his second solo exhibition in Abidjan, entitled "Effractions", Roméo Mivekannin invites us to encounter the plurality and richness of his artistic universe, as a snapshot of his work, multidisciplinary and ambitious, playing with materials and seeking to disrupt the established boundaries of disciplines between them, in order to operate both formally and symbolically this act of effraction which is his own. The exhibition will present paintings, ceramic sculptures and a monumental installation, as many materials that dialogue with each other and testify to the bewitching metamorphoses of the artist.
For the time of this show, the gallery space becomes a theatre, where the artist and the public are invited to replay history in their own way, to reclaim the representations of which they have been the object. Romeo Mivekannin chooses to invite himself where he is not expected and to thwart the place that has been assigned to him. He breaks into the space of European Orientalist painting, both plastically through his self-portrait and symbolically through the reversal that this reinterpretation implies, from a suffered gaze to a chosen gaze.
