Fanta Kaba

POETIQUE DE LA MATIERE

My work, which is articulated around the lines of the body and textures, carries a part of mystery. Using fragments, I try to create a visual poetry made up of abstractions and illusions. The delicate lines, the curves, the shades of gray and the aspect of the materials (marble and bronze) contribute to the setting up of an intimate experience. You have to look carefully at each photograph in order to distinguish what you actually see. It is precisely this discrepancy and confusion that interests me and that I explore with passion in my photographic work. Using an analog camera, I try to visually transform the material of the subject as well as that of the environment that surrounds it. This relatively slow process is important to me to transpose a particular universe in order to pay tribute to the beauty of the human figure and to the delicate shapes given to marble and bronze in order to create the illusion of life.

Photographer

Fanta Kaba

Fanta Kaba was born in 1987 in Paris, where she lives and works. She began her career in Finance before transitioning into photography after obtaining a MA in European Photography.

Her experimental and poetic work invites to contemplation. The textures, the natural elements, the body and the mouvement are at the heart of her photographic work. Focusing on fragments of the human body and of sculptures, she transforms her subjects into intriguing and abstract compositions of lines and texture, of shadow and light. With subtle shades of gray and delicate landscapes, the artists develops a singular and meditative photographic work that allows us to be immersed in a universe of sensations. Her black and white photographs often confuse the line between illusion and reality, a border she often plays with.

Conceived as a visual poetry which evokes rather than explains, her body of work asks questions about humanity, about our perception of reality and about traces of time. She also develops an experimental work with polaroids and around the exploration of the photographic means through a consistent confrontation between analog and digital.

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