{"id":128,"date":"2024-06-12T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contradizioni.local\/?p=128"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:31:58","slug":"suspended-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contradizioni.it\/en\/suspended-identities\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Fotso Nyie: Suspended Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTalking about identity implies also talking about the process of moulding us as individual human beings and in relation to society. This is kind of the idea behind Identit\u00e0 Sospese<\/i> (Suspended Identities). It is a truncated part of history, so now the pieces are put back together like a jigsaw puzzle.\u201d These are the opening thoughts of the documentary Identit\u00e0 Sospese<\/i> (Suspended Identities), the title of Victor Fotso Nyie’s exhibition bearing the same name, part of the solo-collective exhibition SEDIMENTS<\/i>. After Memory<\/i>, curated by Johanne Affricot and Eric Otieno Sumba for SPAZIO GRIOT, held from 30 June to 4 September 2022 at the Mattatoio in Rome.<\/i><\/h3>\n
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SEDIMENTS. After memory<\/em>, Victor Fotso Nyie, Identita\u0300 Sospese – Installation view_ SPAZIO GRIOT @ Mattatoio, \u00a9 SPAZIO GRIOT, ph. Elia Buonora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Through his work, Victor Fotso Nyie, a Cameroonian artist living in Italy, leads us into a layered narrative that runs along the past-present timeline, interrupting it. The sculptural objects created by the artist are conceived and experienced in his innermost self, often made in his own image and likeness. They step outside the narrative and exposition hierarchy of the Western ethnographic museum, proposing a return to the more intimate and familiar self, with a style that is both hyperrealist and surrealist at the same time, and an artistic methodology that breaks down a fabricated otherness and deploys various processes: reworking, re-appropriation, restitution.<\/p>\n