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Ishola Akpo - Akin V
Artist Biography: Ishola Akpo (b. 1983) is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist from Benin. The artist experiments with the possibilities of digital media, while mixing, in his work, modernity and traditions, playing with different levels of reading to make plural metaphors. The border between reality and fiction, fixed and multiple identities, remains at the heart of his approach. In 2013, she won the Visa Pour la Création (French Institute, Paris), where she presented the series Pas de flash sil vous plait! A reflection on the interaction of light on photographed subjects, presented as a performance and exhibition at the Institut Français de Cotonou. In 2014, he published the series L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux (Africa Is No Island, MACAAL, Fair 1.54 in Morocco, 2018), based on a family experience, illustrating his grandmother's dowry, while insisting on the weight of her memory. This reflection will lead him to explore the idea of contemporary marriage. In 2015, with the series Les mariés de notre époque, Ishola Akpo, won the Photoquai, entering the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. Since then she has had multiple artistic residencies: at the Montresso Foundation (Morocco) with the series Daïbi and more recently the Zinsou Foundation (Benin) with "AGBARA Women" presented at the Ouidah Museum as an ode to the power of women, embodied in portraits of known and forgotten queens of African history. Her work has been presented at several important international events, including: The Museum of Immigration History, (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Africa 2020 - Paris), at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt (Germany), Fotonoviembre, Tenerife (Spain), Nuit Blanche of Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Lagosphotos Festival (Nigeria), Afreaka Festival (Brazil).
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