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Mixed-media wooden boards with black and white figurative drawings of African female figures, surrounded by raffia
Mixed media artwork with blue textured background, featuring a black and white religious icon, a black scorpion, and a linear drawing of a woman with braided hair, all surrounded by various small objects and patterns.
Close-up of an abstract, colorful, marbled paper surface with pastel pink, blue, green, and yellow hues, and a partially unfolded neon green paper corner on a pastel pink background.

The New Grotesque

By Rihanata Bigey

Rihanata Bigey is a French-Burkinabè multi-disciplinary artist based in London. Her practice takes inspiration from African cultural heritage and society through painting, sculpture, and installation. She is looking at the culture specifically through the lens of femininity. Rihanata’s work explores the iconographic significance of the Black female body in modern Culture from Western and African societies.