Andro Wekua

Born in 1977 in Sochumi (Georgia), he lives in Zürich (Switzerland).

Combining fiction and autobiography, Andro Wekua composes an enigmatic universe, imbued with a diffuse violence. His installations, which combine paintings, sculptures, family photographs, images and found objects, weave dreamlike narratives through which the artist brings back the troubled world of a childhood marked by death. Haunted by his experience of the civil war in his native Georgia, Wekua tracks down the memory of a primitive scene of destruction that constantly seems to evade representation. The work, often organised around mannequins of young boys and girls, is reminiscent of magical exorcism rites. Blinded by splashes of paint and placed against the blocked horizon of darkly coloured paintings, these wax and ceramic figures - the author's disquieting doubles - manifest the brutal loss of innocence as a defilement of the eye.

He proposes a new work for one of the large lower rooms of the Abattoirs - Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse.