Nèg Nago soti Etazini: 255 East 25th Street. How frightening is it to see oneself dissolve; transmuted

The eye must carve its path to access the image and its cryptic poetry: Andy Robert creates a work that is dense and evanescent at one and the same time. In the lower part, a self-portrait with closed eyes breaks through. The title is a blend of Haitian Creole and American, translating roughly to "A Nago guy ["Nago" is a Yoruba word that refers to a descendant of West Africa] in the United States: 255 East 25th Street. How frightening it is to see oneself dissolve, transmuted." The piece bears witness to a heartfelt identity crisis and the difficulty of revealing oneself, of being grounded. The canvas is framed with fragments of houses whose doors are characteristic of certain American neighbourhoods.