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Edwige Aplogan, artist born in Benin, works and lives in Paris.
His first exhibition took place in 1990 in Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire. Since 1994 she has devoted herself entirely to the visual arts (she practiced the profession of lawyer for fifteen years) thus opening up a field of creation, reflection and feelings. “Soften the rigidity of a society that sometimes forgets the human being. Resist. "She sometimes favors intimate views on women, music, literature, everyday life or human relations, sometimes more socio-political subjects, testifying to a certain commitment" in the face of the upheavals that shake the world, the glaring injustices or the absurdities and other inconsistencies we have to deal with. This painting is also about recreating more harmonious universes, narratives of sublimated lives, of the search for balance… for an additional dream. "
Pastel and acrylic: his creations are of Symbolist tendency.
In 2000 she began to sculpt (wire and plexiglass), while continuing to paint. The sculptures made more explicitly refer to elements of African culture.
Since 2010, the fiftieth anniversary of the independence of French-speaking African countries, it has been creating fabric or “draped” wrappings for monuments and public or private buildings. In Benin, Strasbourg, Paris (UNESCO), Bordeaux, his works are a tribute to Africa and its Diaspora. Edwige Aplogan does a work of memory for the deportees of Africa: in 2012, in Ouidah in Benin on the former place of the auction of slaves, she made a drape by adding the flags of the countries of the Diaspora to which the slaves were deported. The concept of the drape was enriched in 2017 at the Villa Arson in Nice with the addition of flags of the independence movements of the French overseas departments and territories. Its wish is to achieve if possible, every year or every two years, a “drape calling out to our facade independence, and these aspirations for freedom which are slow to come.
The exhibition at the Canopy gallery
The exhibition presents a series of large formats and some of Edwige Aplogan's drapes.
Like moments of narration, stories of the body, energies, liberation, women, we are invited to sit down and hear the storyteller. Far from imprisoning himself in a single place of discourse, the artist traverses the various supports by his colors, his materials and his experiments which, very often being caught in the mosquito net of our cultural biases, try to make us hear new realities. . It is this intimacy that the Canopy Gallery will share with you from Saturday June 29 to Sunday July 14, 2019.