Vincent Michéa takes us into a kaleidoscope that reorganizes space and time. From photomontage to painting via photography, nourished by references to the printed object: in the works of Vincent Michéa everything is linked, everything dialogues and everything is part of a vast iconography, African but also European and American.

In the exhibition, a gallery of portraits that respond to each other, revolving in particular around the city of Dakar. Michéa is fascinated by the aesthetics and architecture of the city, which lies at the crossroads of modernist and vernacular worlds. His works reveal an intimate and memorable relationship with his environment, as he has been living between Paris and Dakar since the mid-1980s.

As a well-known artist of both the West African and Western art scene, Michéa's approach is unique, linking two capitals in his work and life. The exhibition unveils an artist with an irreverent commitment, a prodigy of the image and its polysemy, whose works vibrate with authenticity, joy and melancholy.

The link between the architectural and popular history of a mutating city and the intimacy of the artist's creative space is striking. In the heart of the city and in the artist’s heart, Michéa's neighborhood is a historic place located between the Sandaga market and the Place de l'Indépendance, boasting illustrious Islamic-Sahelian architecture and the PencMi Bokh, one of the last traditional gathering places of the plateau around a majestic cheese tree.

Between the pictorial space of the works and the real space of the world, the limit is as thin as an electric wire against a blue sky. Vincent Michéa uses the elements of architecture or urbanism under our eyes every day that we never actually see, and make them the protagonists of his plastic narrative, the actors of his memory and his sensitive link with Dakar. Dakar and its ever-blue sky.

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