Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to invite you to the opening of artist Dimitri Fagbohoun's solo exhibition, The Unexpected Consequences of History. 

 

Pursuing a conceptual approach that has characterized his work for several years, Dimitri Fagbohoun invites us to look at the unexpected consequences of history. The exhibition is built on associations of forms and backgrounds. Dimitri Fagbohoun weaves a narrative and visual framework around archival photographs dating from the colonial period, on which he subtly intervenes, highlighting details and lines of force.

 

The colored highlights seem to open up gaps in the image, a field of possibilities for an association of the senses and the imaginary. Thus adorned, the images come alive with a new dimension, the characters who inhabit them, men but also landscapes, involuntary protagonists of West African colonial history, are brought to light in their potential strength, their latent capacity for arrangement.

 

The artist's intervention in the image, of the order of the infra-thin, reveals the place of a future; where the seed of a history of crossings and mixtures resides. The reading of the image, then, between historical facts and poetic reverie, branches out and gives rise to a network of resonances from the end of the 18th century to the present day

Born in 1972 in Cotonou, Benin. He works and lives between Paris, Brussels and Cotonou.

 

Coming from a Beninese and Ukrainian family, Dimitri Fagbohoun grew up in Cameroon before moving in France.

 

The themes and questions he tackles reflect his journey and his history, astride the geographic and cultural frontiers, and his research is inseparable from his own experience and his plural identity.