Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia

Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia’s practice, situated between sculpture and installation, emerges from an encounter between the artist and matter. Working with a range of media — including wood, rubber, paper and copper — he creates forms shaped by their resistances and relationships, as well as by the capacity of objects to tell stories, hold memories and energies, denounce and imagine new narratives. Drawing on his own experiences — his childhood in Togo, his travels, his encounters and Mina cultural traditions — his installations explore how the body enters into relation with matter through contact and transformation.

With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands