Vibrations
Passionate about Art and Africa, Mathieu has a strong artistic connection with Africa, he participated in the Dakar Biennale 2022 - Collective Exhibition Marché International des Arts de Dakar. He was also the guest of honor at the inauguration of the International Center for Contemporary Art and Cultures in Dakar in 2021.
The artist aims to catalyze his vision of African heritage through the prism of music, fashion, design and dance, his favorite themes. He tends to design colorful and expressive work using the medium of fabric, very popular in Africa, whose traditional motifs embody the very essence of African identities. For the artist, textiles alone bring together numerous meanings: traditional ceremonies, weddings, dances, music.
Through his work, Mathieu wishes to express his story of friendship with ancestral Africa by making it resonate in the contemporaneity of an Africa which is growing, transforming, emancipating itself and spreading throughout the world, an Africa rich in customs and flourishing of its innovative youth.
Mathieu Josset
Artist
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Party girl
2024
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Black Hibiscus
2024
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Addiction
2023
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Energy
2021
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Mami Wata
2022
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Ebonee
2020
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Who am I?
2019
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Nija Invasion
2019
For his work Mathieu uses the folding technique (braiding, matting, weaving) to transform the Wax fabric, worn throughout Africa and already widely distributed internationally, the Bazin, worn mainly in west Africa, Bogolan, dyed with earth from Mali using an ancestral method, or even Indigo, Kente from Ghana. So many fabrics that allow him to create a veritable platform of colors, enriched with countless printed patterns, resulting in an infinite number of combinations of shapes.
The gesture of folding calls upon volume, material and textures. Through this relationship with the artist's intention and its execution, sensations arise. From the one who hunts, feels, transforms and composes with the fabric. Of those who look, step back, approach, put into perspective and abandon themselves to the repetitive patterns to reimagine the sensation of the pieces fixed on the canvas.
Each detail of the work, each knot, each fold is an entity in its own right. In this way, the artist questions the notion of work through the craftsmanship of fabric and its patterns.
“The work of Mathieu Josset in the warmth of its colors, is a metaphor that highlights the fundamental values of the diversity of cultural expressions to illuminate the collective memory.”
Kalidou Kassé
Plastic artist, Expository commissionner, Founding director of the TAGGAT school of visual arts
