2023 has been a year of wonders for Laetitia Ky: she represented her country, the Côte d’Ivoire at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022; exhibited at the Fondazione Made in Cloister in Naples; was a guest of the Tate Modern in London on 31 March for a seminar within the program “Art Talk” and participated as a female protagonist in the film by Giacomo Abbruzzese “Disco Boy”, awarded with the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival for the best artistic contribution.

The photographic works propose a personal expressive formula, which harmoniously combines the body as a living sculpture, modeled to express ideas, and photography as a documentary and expressive tool. Hers is a relentless search, in which hair – the ultimate symbol of her identity and black beauty – is the fulcrum and engine, a search originated with the recovery of archival photos of hairstyles of African women in general and Ivorian in particular, made using mud.

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Gallery: lis10gallery