Emo de Medeiros
Emo de Medeiros (b: 1979) is a Beninese French artist. He graduated from the elite Ecole Normale Superieure, and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, both in Paris. He lives and works in Cotonou and in Paris.
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Within his practice, he employs an array of media including drawing, sculpture, text, video, photography, performance art, installations, painting and textile. Investigating the new perspectives and conversations on the post-colonial, globalized and digitalized world, de Medeiros’ work explores the fusion of the digital and the material, looking into hybridizations, interconnections and circulations of forms, technologies, traditions, myths, and merchandises.
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The focus of his research encompasses transcultural spaces and the questioning, through non-linear narratives, of traditional notions of origin, locus or identity and their mutations. Characterized by a participatory approach fusing traditional, technological and seismological elements in transmedia forms, his work includes a salient conceptual dimension which he addresses through the production of non-chronological series such as:Sutentures, Vodunautes, Cymbalics and Electrofetishes.
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De Medeiros’ work was exhibited in major institutions including: Musee du Quai Branly, Musee National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Centre Pompidou, La Villette, Palais de Tokyo- all in Paris, France; Cobra Museum, the Netherlands; MACAAL, Morocco; Savvy Contemporary, Germany; Palais de la Marina (Benin). It was included in international Biennials including: 13th Guangju Bienale, Gwanju, South Korea; XXII Paiz Art Biennial, Guatemala City; 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Videobrasil; Dak’ Art Biennale.
