Art Basel, Basel Statements Ndayé Kouagou

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  The installation titled "A not that dirty mirror" introduces Kouagou's latest video production, a playful and accurate dive into our media dominated world. In this video the artist creates uncanny yet familiar situations and plays with language and common tropes. The video follows a TV journalist conducting street interviews for a live program asking one question: "what do you think of what's happening here and elsewhere?" The vernacular and the familiarity of the situation portrayed in the video creates an automatic identification by the viewers, continuing the artist's desire to define the commonality of the postmodern experience. Accompanying the video a question inhabits one of the booth walls "Where should we go from here?", asking the visitor of the fair to open and offer possibilities for our common future.

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  Ndayé Kouagou (born 1992) is an artist and performer based in Paris. His practice always starts from texts of which he is the author. Voluntarily or involuntarily confused, he tries as best as he can to bring a reflection on these three topics: unease, power and vulnerability. The result is… what it is. He describes his work as “quite interesting, but not that interesting or maybe not interesting at all”. He has presented his work, among others, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Wiels (Brussels), Frieze London curated section (London), Centrale Fies (Dro/Italy), Athens Biennale (Athens) and Centre George Pompidou (Paris).

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