KOUKA French, b. 1981
As a graduate from the School of Fine Arts in Avignon, Kouka Ntadi builds his creation on the plurality of narratives around the human origin and identity. From the position of as a Franco-Congolese artist, the questioning of identity and omnipresent duality confront each other in and through the works.
Born in 1981.
He lives and works in Paris (France).
As a graduate from the School of Fine Arts in Avignon, Kouka Ntadi builds his creation on the plurality of narratives around the human origin and identity. From the position of as a Franco-Congolese artist, the questioning of identity and omnipresent duality confront each other in and through the works.
The "Bantu Warriors" marked thus the first singular imprint of the artist who, in an obsessive plastic research on the classical portrait, rehabilitates the symbolic figures of a forgotten original civilization. For a few years now, he has been developing other research themes around Man and Nature. Through a polymorphic work that has favoured recycled materials as supports since the beginning, Kouka Ntadi transfigures the medium, which then becomes a metaphor for universal transmission.
Kouka Ntadi’s works have been presented at the Dakar Biennial (2016) as well as in the exhibition Présence Commune at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat (2017) and have entered the collection of the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, as well as the collection of the Montresso* Art Foundation in Marrakesh.