Eli Made, light drawn out of darkness
On black textile, Eli Made does not paint: he removes. Portrait of a Congolese artist who has turned a household chemical process into a tool of absolute pictorial rigour.
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Eli Made
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Practice
- Bleaching on textile
- Works shown
- 3
Light is not laid onto the canvas but drawn out of its own darkness.
Biography
Eli Made
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Eli Made develops a visual language founded on the subtraction of colour and the oxidation of matter. Working with bleach on black textile, he replaces the addition of paint with a process of revelation: pigment is extracted from the support so that the figure emerges from the dark ground.
His practice combines the precision of drawing with the vitality of an unconventional medium. By turning a household chemical process into a tool of absolute pictorial rigour, Made builds compositions of high visual density in which light is not laid onto the canvas but drawn out of its own darkness.
Distinctions and selections
- 2025
MINDSPACE, Angalia Gallery, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
- 2024
AKAA Fair 2024 / Lille Art Up 2024 / Show, Memory and Soul, Angalia Gallery, Paris, France
- 2023
Portraits ya Kongo, Angalia Gallery, Paris, France
- 2022
EXPUNRDC, National Museum of the DRC (MNRDC), Kinshasa, DRC
Works
Works by Eli Made
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