La plupart des peintres ajoutent. Ils d\u00e9posent la couleur, couche apr\u00e8s couche, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 ce que l\u2019image tienne. Eli Made proc\u00e8de \u00e0 l\u2019inverse. Son support est un textile noir ; son outil, un agent blanchissant. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 il intervient, le pigment se retire et la figure \u00e9merge du fond obscur, comme une photographie qui se r\u00e9v\u00e9lerait lentement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Son langage plastique est fond\u00e9 sur la soustraction de la couleur et l\u2019oxydation de la mati\u00e8re. Le noir n\u2019est pas un fond que l\u2019on recouvre\u00a0mais une r\u00e9serve que l\u2019on ouvre. L\u00e0 o\u00f9 la fibre c\u00e8de, apparaissent des tons cuivr\u00e9s, ocre et ambr\u00e9s, d\u2019une chaleur inattendue. Visages de profil, chevelures fleuries, mains pos\u00e9es sur le visage, les figures semblent \u00e9clair\u00e9es de l\u2019int\u00e9rieur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nLight is not laid onto the canvas but drawn out of its own darkness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The precision of drawing, the vitality of the medium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ce qui frappe d\u2019abord, c\u2019est la tenue du dessin. Le m\u00e9dium est vif et peu conventionnel ; il exige pourtant une rigueur absolue. Made transforme un geste du quotidien domestique en outil de pr\u00e9cision et construit des compositions \u00e0 haute densit\u00e9 visuelle, o\u00f9 chaque zone claire a \u00e9t\u00e9 conquise sur le noir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cette \u00e9conomie renverse la hi\u00e9rarchie habituelle de la peinture, le support devient alors la mati\u00e8re m\u00eame de l\u2019image. Le textile, mat\u00e9riau du v\u00eatement et de l\u2019intime, porte ici la m\u00e9moire des corps qu\u2019il r\u00e9v\u00e8le.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From Kinshasa to Paris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In 2022, his work was included in EXPUNRDC at the National Museum of the DRC in Kinshasa. With Angalia Gallery in Paris came Portraits ya Kongo in 2023, then AKAA Fair, Lille Art Up and Show, Memory and Soul in 2024. In 2025, MINDSPACE devoted a solo exhibition to him at the Paris gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reg\u2019Art suit ce travail parce qu\u2019il pose, avec une grande \u00e9conomie de moyens, une question centrale pour la cr\u00e9ation contemporaine africaine. Comment faire image \u00e0 partir de ce qui est d\u00e9j\u00e0 l\u00e0, la mati\u00e8re, le noir, la m\u00e9moire, plut\u00f4t que de le recouvrir\u00a0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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