The hip-hop culture of Fahamu Pecou at the Back-slash Gallery in the Haut Marais.
With a natural talent for depicting the rhythm of the body in motion - he paints while listening to hip-hop, soul and jazz - Fahamu Pecou embodies a new generation of urban African-American artists, who reflect on the
" splendor of the black soul”
and the ancestral heritage of African cultures.
We had not seen her work for three years on the walls of Delphine Guillaud's gallery, located between République and Arts-et-Métiers, a district in full creative turmoil.
The 47-year-old artist, born in New York and living in Atlanta, who accurately observes the rites of African-American youth, through hairstyles and pageantry, pays homage to the musical heritage here.
In this new series of paintings and drawings on a yellow, blue, green or red background, Pecou features colorful characters who have marked black American culture, such as Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass...
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