Ghislain Brown-Kossi: Believe

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Ghislain Brown-Kossi, "Fertility," 2022

Kostuik Gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of new paintings; by emerging Canadian artist Ghislain Brown-Kossi entitled Believe.

In Believe, Brown-Kossi reactivates the ancestral symbols also seen in his other art series. Inspired by various geographical locations and cultural groups, the symbols are reworked and given new context. Manipulating them in this way, the artist’s intention is to free them from the temporal, spatial, cultural and religious constraints and attachments that may exist. In this way, immersing the viewer in a new visual language. The uniquer colour combinations and built-up symbols using plaster reinforce the idea of artist as architect in an imaginary new world united by love and beauty, the symphony of humanity.

BIOGRAPHY Born and raised in Lyon, France, Brown-Kossi experienced great diversity throughout his childhood and schooling. His family’s heritage from the Ivory Coast further provides the artist a background full of dialects and mixed language history.

Presenting his first photographic exhibition in an apartment in Paris, he has since expanded his practice and exhibited in France, England and Canada. Currently living and working in Vancouver, BC, Brown-Kossi’s art has been included in a number of local exhibitions in the last year including at the Port Moody Arts Center, the Gibson Public Art Gallery, Seymour Art Gallery, Studio 17, Evergreen Gallery, and the Richmond Arts Coalition.