Nanténé Traoré

Nanténé Traoré tells stories with words and images. Borrowing from the storyteller’s roles as reporter of what has been and scribe of what is yet to come, he aims to create a living documentation of the present and a new iconography of the intimate. In his photographs and texts, common motifs emerge – tales of tenderness, transmission and freedom, told by bodies in motion, fluid and non-normative.

Through an almost infinite repetition of images, gestures and words, it is also a question, particularly in his most recent practice, of dealing with the immense vertigo of what is missing in the world. His photographs and texts are collections where human traces hybridize with the void, allegories of absence and loss, fragile memories where love, joy and melancholy coexist.