Léonce Raphaël AGBODJELOU - Egoungoun 2021

Léonce Agbojélou: Egoungoun (The Revenants)

Léonce Agbojélou's work, straddling tradition and modernity, deals with the memory of slavery. He photographed the 'egoungouns' (the revenants) a lot, in order to highlight the tradition surrounding the cult of the dead. His portraits reveal a sense of timelessness and the supernatural...
« In this part of the world, with its mixed spiritual traditions of Catholicism and vodun, photography exists as a means of mediation between the living and the dead. »

His work is exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, at the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) in the Saatchi and Jack Bell galleries in London as well as at the Vitra Museum in Basel.

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