Pélagie Gbaguidi

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Pélagie Gbaguidi (* 1965 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese artist.

Life

Pélagie Gbaguidi has Benin roots and was born in Senegal in 1965. She studied at the Art School in Liège, Belgium. Today she lives and works in Brussels.

Pélagie Gbaguidi describes himself as a contemporary griot , i.e. a personality who passes on the knowledge of a culture and thus preserves the history of a people.

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Gbaguidi work deal with the cultural history of peoples. In one of her work, she took up the Code Noir of King Louis XIV of France and implemented the theme with a whole group of works of drawings, paintings and photographs.

Your work was u. a. shown at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, as part of the Casablanca Biennale , in the Center d'art contemporain Meymac (France) and in the Imane Farès gallery in Paris.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pélagie Gbaguidi on the Documenta 14 website, accessed on October 11, 2017
  2. ↑ a b PÉLAGIE GBAGUIDI | Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg . In: Heinrich Böll Foundation Brandenburg . ( boell-brandenburg.de [accessed on October 11, 2017]).
  3. ^ A b Institute for Foreign Relations eV: Pélagie Gbaguidi. Retrieved October 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gbaguidi, Pélagie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar , Senegal