Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to present in its spaces in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Dakar (Senegal) and Paris (France), the exhibition About Now #1 - emerging artists from Africa and beyond, an unprecedented exhibition dedicated to the young emerging creation in Africa. 

About Now #1 reaffirms one of the founding commitments of the gallery’s identity: its support for emerging creation. The exhibition brings together fifteen artists - nine women and six men - with an average age of under thirty years old, from ten countries around the world, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, the United States, South Africa, France and Côte d’Ivoire. 

The exhibition  is conceived as a subjective panorama, a sort of snapshot of creation at a given moment, a non-exhaustive proposal to grasp in their plurality the visions of young artists today, their perception of contemporary society, their relationship to memory and tradition, the construction of the self in relation to otherness, the questioning of binary systems of thought or the redefinition of a sensitive relationship with nature. 

Between Abidjan, Dakar and Paris, the exhibition is a unique proposition, with the same opening date for all three venues, echoing celebrations and a multiple and permanent dialogue between the proposals of the fifteen artists; a dialogue that is embodied beyond the connections induced by the immediate physical cohabitation. 

Through this group show Galerie Cécile Fakhoury invites us to take advantage of the rhetoric of the global by celebrating in the same movement the beauty of the multiple and the power of hybridity; immersing us in a complex and jubilant panorama.