In G major

Freedom, creativity, transversality with Emo de Medeiros

Audio 48:30

Emo artist from Medeiros.

© Ph. Jean-Louis Carli / MAIF

By: Yasmine Chouaki

1 min

He walks masked, and in doing so, becomes seer.

Futuristic glasses on the nose, that's why you won't know anything about the color of the eyes of Emo de Medeiros.

Nothing from his biography either.

Except that this spectral artist (let's call him spectral) is so loaded with literary, musical, historical, electronic, intergalactic references that we will end up getting an idea of ​​a human sketch.

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Among the pebbles sown are Benin for childhood, France for studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the USA at the Massachusetts College of Art.

And on arrival, an artistic concept called contexture (don't go for the dictionary,

, that's his job) with works exhibited internationally (from Nigeria to Sao Paulo via Japan and Senegal ).

For En Sol Majeur, we will evoke the exhibition 

(in Benin) and 

(in Paris).

You must already understand that, for example, with his Vodunotes sculptures, this artist of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow, did not necessarily come out of the kaleta (of childhood)...

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