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Hyacinthe OUATTARA

Hyacinthe Ouattara is a mainly self-taught visual artist. After EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND in live-model sketching in various workshops, he began by depicting the human body in a dreamlike, ghostly and childlike way, before venturing into its entrails and focusing his work on the anatomy of cellular tissues, through " human cartographies ".

His drawings are spontaneous and gestural. Between appearance, disappearance and representation of intimacy, they question identity in the broadest sense.

Water Study (2021-2022) is a metaphor for the symbolism of water and the notion of the link between several elements of the cosmos and its infinite materiality. Initially, the painting chooses its trajectory, the colors intertwine and compose a floating universe. Water connects several territories, several peoples of the world. The notion of connection has always been central to his work, and for him, there is only one human map where borders disappear.

His works have been shown in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Ouagadougou, Accra, Luxembourg, Kalgoorlie, among others.

Private Choice presents for its 2023 edition a selection of textile creations: alongside the tapestry entitled L’intime is suspended his series of Talismans, woven and knotted works with strength, which are the result of spontaneous impulses and seem to carry memories and enigmas within them.

Biography

Hyacinthe Ouattara was born in 1981 in Burkina Faso. He lives and works in Villejuif.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

  • 2022 / Habiter le monde qui nous habite, Fondation H, Paris, France
  • 2022 / UNE ODYSSÉE DE L’ESPACE, AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris, France.
  • 2022 / MATIÈRES VIVANTES, Galerie DuflonRacz, Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2022 / ESPRIT DOGON, Espace TRAMES, 11ème édition Partcours, Dakar, Sénégal.
  • 2022 / The Complexity Of The Universe, Sulger-Buel-Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
  • 2020 / L’Infinito Materialità, ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI, Bologna, Italy.
  • 2017 / Travelling, Centre Culturel Max Juclier, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France.
  • 2015 / Parcours, Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts, Villejuif, France.
  • 2015 / Le hublot, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France.
  • 2013 / Yââlà, Alliance Française Accra, Ghana.
  • 2013 / Hyacinthe Ouattara dans l’arène, Institut Français, Ouagadougou, Birkina-Faso.
  • 2012 / Dessins, Goethe Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.
  • 2012 / Promenade, Villa Yiri Suma, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

  • 2023 / Reclaimed, duo Show with Marinda Vandenheede, Ronewa art projects, Berlin, Germany
  • 2022 / Official Selection for the International Exhibition of the 14th Edition of the Dakar Biennale I NDAFFA# Dak’art 2022, Dakar, Senegal.
  • 2022 / Private Choice n°11 Life lines, Paris
  • 2021 / Private Choice n°10 Odyssey, Paris
  • 2020 / Investec CAPE TOWN ART FAIR (Afikaris Gallery), Cape Town, South Africa.
  • 2019 / Eyes EAST Bound, Cairo Biennale 13, Cairo, Egypt.
  • 2018 / AKAA ART FAIR,(ATISS DAKAR Gallery), Carreau du Temple, Paris, France. -Dubai ART FAIR,(ATISS DAKAR Gallery), Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • 2016 / La Fabrique Culturelle des Abattoirs, Casablanca, Morocco.
  • 2016 / L’alchimie des Formes, Espace Bastides, Valence-Sur-Baïse, France.
  • 2016 / ART COP 22, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • 2016 / 18th International Biennial “Small Format Paper”, Musée du Petit Format, Nismes and Ecoles des Arts de Breun L’Alleud, Belgium.
  • 2015 / Espace Culturel de la Douve, Langeais, France.
  • 2014 / Le Chêne (Alternative Creation Center), Villejuif, France.
  • 2014 / Espace Culturel Anes Art’Gonne, Evres-en-Argonne, France.
  • 2014 / 17th International Biennial “Small Format Paper”, Musée du Petit Format, Nismes and ULB Culture, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2013 / L’ancien Cercle Artistique, Tournai, Belgium.
  • 2013 / Académie des Beaux Arts, Tamines, Belgium.
  • 2013 / Cité des Arts, Chambéry, France.
  • 2013 / Chapel of the Grey Penitents, Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, France.
  • 2012 / « WAKATSÔNGO », Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin Weissensee.
  • 2010 / Inks and Straws, Goethe Institut, Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.
  • 2010 / Art From West Africa, Kargoorlie/Perth, Australia.

RESIDENCIES

  • 2023 / Fondation Montresso, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • 2023 / Atelier-Residence, 193 Gallery, Paris, France.
  • 2023 / TRAMES, Dakar, Senegal.
  • 2022 / Fondation H, Paris, France.
  • 2022 / Sulger-Buel Gallery, London, England.
  • 2016 / The Cultural Factory of the Casablanca Slaughterhouses, Morocco.
  • 2013 / Cité des Arts, Chambéry, France.
  • 2011 / Volklingen hutte, Saarbrucken, Germany
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