Hyacinthe Ouattara

Hyacinthe Ouattara is a mainly self-taught visual artist. After training 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 ".

Her 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 revolving around the symbolism of water and the notion of the link between several elements of the cosmos and its infinite materiality. At the outset, the paint chooses its trajectory, colors interweave and compose a floating universe. Water links several territories, several peoples of the world. The notion of connection has always been central to his work, and for him, there's only one human map where borders disappear.

His work has been seen in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Ouagadougou, Accra, Luxembourg, Kalgoorlie, etc.

For its 2023 edition, Private Choice presents a selection of textile creations: alongside the tapestry entitled L'intime hangs its series of Talismans, works woven and knotted with strength, which are the fruit of spontaneous impulses and seem to carry within them memories and enigmas.