AFIKARIS
7 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, 75003, Paris, FRANCE
Présentation de la galerie
Founded in 2018 by Florian Azzopardi in his apartment, AFIKARIS Gallery opened its first public space in Paris in 2020, before moving in 2022 to a larger venue in the heart of the Haut Marais, on Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth.
Committed to fostering intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, AFIKARIS Gallery has, from the beginning, focused its program on artists from the African continent and its diaspora.
Today, the gallery represents around fifteen artists, often socially engaged and driven by a desire to speak about society, their culture, their heritage, and to write their own story.
AFIKARIS offers its artists a platform for expression through ambitious solo exhibitions, for which it regularly collaborates with internationally renowned curators such as Christine Eyene, Louise Thurin, and Pascal Odille. The gallery also supports its artists in their institutional exhibitions and Biennials. Finally, the gallery takes part in numerous international art fairs, mainly in Europe and the United States.
In 2022, AFIKARIS opened a residency space in Montreuil for artists preparing projects with the gallery.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Saïdou Dicko’s watercolours echo the artist’s universe, inhabited by children, animals, and imaginary flowers nourished by plastic waste. The figures at the centre of the blank page are left to their own devices. The stories they tell beneath the mango tree reflect their dreams and hopes. Together, they naïvely imitate adults, creating a parallel reality where everything becomes a source of wonder. It is up to them to imagine what tomorrow might hold. Far from natural disasters, human beings and nature live in harmony. Saïdou Dicko sketches an invitation to kindness and to reconnect with our environment. Plastic - the nerve centre of today’s ecological battle, here sustains a reborn nature and thus becomes a source of life.
