artist/ Wilson

Cote d'ivoire

A face-to-face with origins. Memory adjusts its fragments; the glue takes hold. It’s in the streets of Marseille that Wilson Mété draws his inspiration. Through his urban wanderings, memories of his homeland surge forth. Côte d’Ivoire walks alongside him. On canvas, the artist gathers the pieces of his childhood and the light of African youth; a way of reciting the present and thinking about the future. The versatility of the artistic gesture allows for a better grasp of the stakes of origins and the desire to reveal current strengths. Between drawing, painting, and collage, the canvases enrich themselves through their arrangements. The subtle presence of fabric brings a new density to the works: that of memory and its multiple meanders. Like a new artistic velvet, the memorial fabric unfolds before us. It offers a world made of images, emotions, and permanence. The artistic material becomes living matter. It extends its organic tissues in a constant grafting of the present time. Between the rush to the past and presence in the world, the artist stands before the abyss. He gathers what is destined for oblivion. The artist makes a statement: we must find the simplicity of the world again and take care of what’s left of it. Art becomes consideration; like a natural care given to others and the world. The ecological challenge is assumed, for the construction of a youth in search of meaning and anchorage.