LEGENDES URBAINES

Designed and produced during the first Hors Pistes workshop in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Légendes Urbaines, is a series of masks that tells the story of a new - urban - group mixing traditional and moderns materials and attitudes.

 

Geometrical bronze pieces designed and produced on site become frames to play with different materials found in markets or traditionally used at the weaving workshop. 

 

Légendes Urbaines consists of eight unique masks. 

 

Collaborators; 

Alphonse Ouedraogo, bronze workshop

Antoinette Boukougou, weaving workshop

Ilboudou Ablacé, leather workshop

 

Materials: bronze, different natural fibres, rubber, different ropes

Dimensions:  ~30 x ~20 x 35 -100 cm

 

Pictures by Fabrice Schneider // DBS

 

HORS PISTES / 2013