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Roméo Mivekannin

Roméo Mivekannin

Born in 1986, lives and works between Toulouse and Cotonou
(Benin).

After training as a cabinetmaker and studying art history, Roméo Mivekannin chose to enter the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse. He developed a personal creative practice, experimenting with several mediums from sculpture to painting. Roméo Mivekannin infuses his creations within an ancestral temporality, making his own rituals and echoing the voodoo cosmology that is very present in Benin. He plays with materials, and seeks to upset the established boundaries between disciplines in order to operate both formally and symbolically an act of break-in that is unique to him. The artist unravels the threads of our confinement a little more each time, and thus questions our collective and personal heritage. Most recently, he has exhibited at 1-54 Gallery in New York (2023), Galerie Cécile Fakhoury in Abidjan (2022), and at the 2022 Dakar Biennale.