Courtesy: Afikaris

Text by Floréal Duran

Beyond a pictorial writing that belongs fully to him and characters created out of nowhere but deeply human, 23-year-old Famakan Magassa deciphers Malian society with an irony as ferocious as it is subtle. There is the strength of the artist, that of denouncing while having fun. However, it would be a shame to reduce Famakan Magassa to a humorist because he carries with him a thought, a lucid vision of our world. It is to a human comedy at once universal African that he will invite us in his next work. Without wanting too much to reveal the secrets we already know that the "Soifs" of Magassa will quench our pupils and our spirit. It is the fruit of a reflection conducted with its agent, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration of which it is the driving force. The painter has in him this power, this magic that is his own to create this unique universe where he captures the drifts, the losses, the corruptions of our society to restore them with onirism. But in return there is also hope, positive.