This week we unveil the story of the work of art Tales from Lamu to Timbuktu by artist Evans Mbugua and take you on a discovery of an archipelago off the Kenyan coast in search of the ancestral traditions of an entire population and, beyond that, those of the African continent.
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Whether it is his family or strangers, each of the characters that the artist Evans Mbugua represents in his works has crossed his path one day. If behind each of his representations is a story, the viewer is also free to imagine the tale ...
And you, what do you imagine behind the red beard and the sunglasses?
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In his childhood mind, Lamu, the capital city of an archipelago of the same name that stretches off the Kenyan coast, seems like a lost paradise. There, traditions are alive and are perpetuated from generation to generation fitting exactly with the needs of our modern times.
However, time has slowed down there and concerns are brought back to the essentials.
Harmed by its proximity to Somalia, the Lamu archipelago appears to be unsafe to the neophytes and, although it is very close to the coast, only a few Kenyans go there.
When he arrived in France, the artist never stops thinking about Lamu, the image he has of it, the traditions and knowledge it conveys. This knowledge that he links to the whole of Africa and of which Timbuktu is the personification.
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