4.0435° S, 39.6682° N - The Birth of a Vision
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The exhibition dedicated to Mariko, the artist name of Florence Combescure, unfolds as a mental map where Africa, Asia, and Europe converge within a unique symbolic space. In her sculptural practice, travel is not seen as a physical movement, but as a continuous inner migration through memory, culture, and imagination. Visions overlap, identities dissolve, and hybrid forms emerge, suspended between several worlds.
The conceptual origin of the exhibition is located in Mombasa, Kenya, where, as a child, the artist discovered clay within the Maasai community and created her first sculpture. From this founding experience is born an artistic language in which material becomes a place of cultural passage and imaginary transformation.
Mariko’s works never belong to a single tradition. The archaic and totemic power of African art intertwines with the restrained tension of Oriental aesthetics and the plastic sensitivity of European sculpture, generating figures that escape any fixed categorization. It is precisely in this fusion that her work finds its coherence: a visual language that unites monumentality and delicacy, ritual and contemporaneity, ancestral memory and modern imagination.
Female figures traverse her work as archetypes in transformation. Ceramics, bronze, terracotta, and metallic elements participate in this dialogue between distant worlds. Dark and textured surfaces evoke a material language in which archaic memory and contemporary sensibility coexist in constant tension.
The exhibition does not unfold as a linear narrative but as a constellation of connections and influences, where each sculpture becomes a point of intersection between continents, cultures, and imaginations. For Mariko, art is the space in which these geographies converge, dissolve, and finally take shape through matter.
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Artist: Mariko (Florence Combescure)
Media: ceramics, bronze, terracotta, metallic elements
Automatically translated from French.
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