Water carrier

Conducted in Ouagadougou during a solo exhibition at the French Institute, the series depicts ironically the exotic "water carrier" cliché. I used twelve canaries, these clay jars usually designed for transporting and storing the food, that I covered with icons of consumption and communication. Then I asked women in traditional dress to carry them in rural environments. I wanted the incongruity to result both from the theme and the place. It stems primarily from the fact that these canaries, usually left rough, have their functional form tilted in an iconography from another world. It also reflects the fact that this intervention, inspired by the street art universe and its urban diversions, is staged in a completely rural setting.