We follow artist Joana Choumali from the Ivory Coast Pavilion at the 57th Venice Art Bienniale to Dak’Art 2018, as she explores the shared experience of migration and violence in her birth country. Her embroidered photographs trace stories of loss and longing—depicting lone figures disappearing from home and reappearing in foreign environments, and giving shape to the emptiness left by the casualties of terrorism. Needle and thread express Choumali’s empathy with the fraught human condition.
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- Ivory Coast Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale, 2017
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- artist Joana Choumali, Venice, 2017
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- view from steps of Palazzo Dolfin, Venice
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- Joana Choumali, Abidjan Paris
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- Joana Choumali, Banjul Tokyo, detail
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- Joana Choumali, Ouagadougou New York
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- Joana Choumali, Ça Va Aller 10
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- Joana Choumali, Ça Va Aller 8
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- Joana Choumali, Ça Va Aller 1
Sound Editing: Anamnesis Audio | Photography: Joanna Choumali and Fresh Art International
Related Links: Joana Choumali, Ivory Coast Pavilion, Dak’Art 2018
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