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Female figure -Baoulé

1940
Materials: wood, enamel
10 см x 10 см
Category: sculpture
Item Number: 019576
2 000 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

The Baoulé believe in the existence of geniuses of the bush that take human form.

Few people have seen them, but diviners say they are ugly, hunchbacked, hairy. Invisible to everyone, they have a strange affection for some humans. Problem: for a spirit, how to enter into intelligence with a living? To possess it, literally. The genius seizes a person who becomes a medium, a komyenfwé, able to give information on the future, the care to bring. Voluptuous and mischievous, these spirits become clement and beneficial if they are honored.

How to act on them? To bring them to "live" temporarily in a work of art that will absorb their power, to regulate it. The statue is not the "portrait" of the genie, just its interior. According to the expression, "genius lives in the statuette" (Asia usu i tran olè).

ORFELD IS A VIRTUAL ARTIST WHO MAKES OBJECTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF HISTORY AND PRESENT

He uses innovative approach to produce works that mark evolution in the artistic world.

The artist rethinks unique ritual objects from antiquity to 19th century by adding metallized coating, actualizing initial piece and give it a reborn.

Orfeld imprisoning, perpetuating it in a timeless way. He makes it exist differently. It is about bringing unfairly anonymous objects back to light.

Orfeld’s art confronts the viewer with a fusion — a form of temporal, cultural and artistic synchronization with our times.