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Further Than Here

Further Than Here

2025
Mixed media, 24-carat gold
Approximate diameter: 165 cm
Publication: Africa Legacy — Berceau de l’Art, Fonds Mercator, 2026
Exhibition: Africa Legacy, Brussels, Belgium, 2026

Further Than Here unfolds through a language of lines, voids and light inspired by living systems. The work draws from nature its organic rhythms, branching structures and supple tensions, like a form in growth, drift or metamorphosis. It evokes the delicacy of a plant, the memory of a shoreline and the breath of a presence in motion.

Its visual language also enters into dialogue with the vocabulary of textiles and lace. Thread, weave, openwork and repetition become elements of composition, as though matter had been patiently woven through space. This textile dimension inscribes the work within a memory of gesture and transmitted knowledge.

Gold occupies an essential place in the work. It is not decorative, but symbolic and luminous. It draws on the cultural and historical resonance of gold in the Mali Empire — a material of radiance, circulation and exchange, carrying memory as much as light.

Gold becomes a guiding thread between nature, memory and inheritance. The work opens a space of resonance between organic forms, textile traditions and the civilizations that have made gold a language of power, beauty and transmission.

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