Kokou Ekouagou
Togo
Kokou Ekouagou
SEDUCER
2020
Freedom
The search for freedom leads to selfishness and conscience.
Consciousness makes free.
Greed glorifies the means that lead to success and glory without worrying about ways and procedures.
Faced with the invisible enemy, COVID-19, all of humanity is exposed.
Behind his mask, we are "Alive" or "Dead Alive".
In its true functioning, you, me, behind his mask, carry death deep within him.
With his mask hides this fear of death which develops and appears on the face.
Even of God, made it appear by hiding behind a mask to invoke it and pretend.
By life and by actions, self-destruction and evil becomes a banality like the climate change resulting from the production of toxic waste without taking into account the environmental factor.
So cunning, fierce and cold, will always be a predator, capitalist, without brakes, without respect for the environment with the mask behind which hides to show a face of lamb.
We must then unmask, unmask to look at the conscience far from selfishness behind his mask to be truly free and opt for Freedom far from hypocrisy.
Let us remove the mask to make us better known.
Kokou Ekouagou, 2020
Biographical information
Kokou Ekouagou was born in Lomé, Togo.
He studied at the University of Lomé and was trained in Cultural Management by the Goethe-Institut.
His work is trans-medial encompassing painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation.
His visual practice weaves stories and visual histories, which comment on the idea of identity and multicultural principle.
His research projects are propelled by a desire to reflect on the classifications and constructs of everyday reality.
Ekouagou has exhibited at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, Malmo Kunsthalle (Sweden), ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe (Germany); Guangzhou Live (China), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Marrakech Biennale (Morocco), Ben Uri Museum, London; Sobering Galerie, Paris among others
The search for freedom leads to selfishness and conscience.
Consciousness makes free.
Greed glorifies the means that lead to success and glory without worrying about ways and procedures.
Faced with the invisible enemy, COVID-19, all of humanity is exposed.
Behind his mask, we are "Alive" or "Dead Alive".
In its true functioning, you, me, behind his mask, carry death deep within him.
With his mask hides this fear of death which develops and appears on the face.
Even of God, made it appear by hiding behind a mask to invoke it and pretend.
By life and by actions, self-destruction and evil becomes a banality like the climate change resulting from the production of toxic waste without taking into account the environmental factor.
So cunning, fierce and cold, will always be a predator, capitalist, without brakes, without respect for the environment with the mask behind which hides to show a face of lamb.
We must then unmask, unmask to look at the conscience far from selfishness behind his mask to be truly free and opt for Freedom far from hypocrisy.
Let us remove the mask to make us better known.
Kokou Ekouagou, 2020
Biographical information
Kokou Ekouagou was born in Lomé, Togo.
He studied at the University of Lomé and was trained in Cultural Management by the Goethe-Institut.
His work is trans-medial encompassing painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance and installation.
His visual practice weaves stories and visual histories, which comment on the idea of identity and multicultural principle.
His research projects are propelled by a desire to reflect on the classifications and constructs of everyday reality.
Ekouagou has exhibited at Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, Malmo Kunsthalle (Sweden), ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe (Germany); Guangzhou Live (China), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Marrakech Biennale (Morocco), Ben Uri Museum, London; Sobering Galerie, Paris among others
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