Mélodies Ancestrales

Mélodies Ancestrales is a bilingual French–English monograph dedicated to Hyacinthe Ouattara, tracing the Burkinabè artist’s multidisciplinary practice through drawings, paintings, textile sculptures, and installations. Rooted in ancestral memory, his work explores transmission, materiality, spirituality, and the connections between individual and collective histories. The publication brings together a selection of works alongside texts by Cindy Olohou and Ronan Grossiat, and an interview with the artist by Flavien Louh conducted on the occasion of Habiter le Monde qui nous Habite at Fondation H in 2022. Mélodies Ancestrales offers an intimate insight into Ouattara’s poetic approach to memory, identity, ritual, and the living nature of matter.