For his new solo exhibition in Paris, Vincent Michéa takes us into a kaleidoscope that reorganizes space and time.
From photomontage to painting, via photography and printed objects, in Vincent Michéa's works everything is linked, everything is in dialogue and everything is part of a vast iconography, African but also European and American.
In the exhibition, a gallery of portraits responds to each other and is articulated in particular around the city of Dakar, whose aesthetics and architecture at the crossroads of modernist and vernacular worlds fascinates the artist. The images he constructs reveal an intimate and memorial relationship with his environment: Vincent Michéa has lived between Paris and Dakar since the mid-1980s.
Well-known artist of the West African and Western scene, his approach is unique as he has made the link between two capitals, in his work and in his life. Guided by a principle of pleasure, Vincent Michéa's first solo exhibition at the Cécile Fakhoury Gallery in Paris reveals an artist with an irreverent commitment, a prodigy of the image and its polysemy, whose works vibrate with authenticity, joy and melancholy.
Between the pictorial space of the works and the real space of the world, the limit is as thin as an electric wire on a blue sky background. These elements of architecture or urbanism under our eyes every day without us ever really seeing them, Vincent Michéa makes them the protagonists of his plastic narrative, the actors of his memory and his sensitive link with Dakar. Dakar and its always blue sky.
