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Lauriane Itoua (Lylo)

France

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Artwork details

  • Medium : Acrylic on Canvas
  • Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
  • Dimensions : 47.2x31.9in

About this artwork

Against a backdrop of an arid and hostile desert, an African man holds a baby close to him, his face marked with deep concern. With his head tilted towards the child, he seems to seek refuge in his fragility, as if his protection was the only thing that still mattered. His hand, tied by an invisible rope, symbolizes helplessness in the face of the situation which forces them into exile. The work immerses us in the heartbreaking reality of refugees,… forced to flee their homes to escape war, persecution or poverty. The cleverly chosen colors reinforce the artist's poignant message. Black, the color of mourning and loss, contrasts with the immaculate white of the child's clothing, a symbol of hope and innocence. The dark metallic blue here evokes the depth of his grief and the determination that drives him.

The desert, a vast expanse of ocher sand, represents the immensity of the unknown and the dangers that await the
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Lauriane Itoua (Lylo)

France

Credentials

  • Featured in gallery curations
  • Works on commission
Lylo is a self-taught painter born in 1986 in Saint Petersburg, of Congolese and Bulgarian origin. She grew up in France, where she built her pictorial language on her own — with only one year at the Bellecour school as a starting point, and the rest through practice, observation, and persistence.
Her subjects are strangers, archetypes — the angel, the father and child, the woman on the subway, the man who looks up. Figures that everyone has already passed by without really looking. Lylo looks at them.
Her technique is inverted: she paints light rather than shadows, working white over black to bring forth faces. The Black figure is not a political subject for her—it is something older, more internal. A mystical presence she seeks in each canvas, somewhere between her heritages.
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