Framed Intimacy 01, at UNFAIR23, 16 - 19 November 2023
In my work, I try to find ways to nurture and honour every part of (my) identity, the Self. How can we stand in line with who went before us? How to portray an imagination where all these parts are layered and transparent?
Trying to portray all these parts of the self or giving light
to forgotten or neglected parts of the self, asks for radical imagination. Taking up space by presenting an alternative where you show that you are overly connected.
In my latest work, I try that by embodying African wooden art from my father’s personal collection, Mamadou Ouédraogo. In these pieces of our heritage, you see how our ancestors used to present bodies through sculptures. What can I learn from the way these bodies pose?
A research about posing, bearing and positioning yourself. A longing for who went before us. Longing to express togetherness through material heirlooms. I try to capture the human intimacy of West African sculptural wooden art.
I present the ability to express the generational connection by enlarging different intimate poses to human size and placing myself between them. With Framed Intimacy 01, I propose to give them space in the present.
Bodil Ouédraogo X Yann Turchi, Nataal Magazine, 2024
