Nanténé Traoré
Nanténé Traoré (born in 1993) is an artist and writer who lives and works between Brussels and Paris. Through a catalog of images, gestures, and words, their practice constructs a living iconography of intimacy. In search of the missing image, their recent work is particularly focused on addressing the immense vertigo of what is absent from the world.
Nanténé Traoré is participating in the fourth edition of the Reiffers Art Prize, 1000 milliards d’images.
Exhibition view of "1000 milliards d'images"
Nanténé Traoré , 2025
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Nanténé Traoré , 2025
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Nanténé Traoré , 2025Biography
Their photographic work has been presented in several solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Louis Roederer Foundation for the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival, the Amanda Wilkinson Gallery in London, Air de Paris in Romainville, the Marcelle Alix Gallery in Paris, Lieu Unique with the FRAC Pays de la Loire in Nantes, and the Magasins Généraux in Pantin.
Nanténé Traoré's work has received multiple awards, including the Prix Découverte at the Rencontres d'Arles, the Utopie Prize, the Mentor Prize, the Vonovia Prize in Germany, and the Wort im Bild Prize in Austria. In 2023, their photographic series Tu vas pas muter was acquired by the Cnap collections.
Nanténé Traoré is represented by Galerie Sultana in Paris, where they are currently holding their first solo exhibition, to be absent does not mean to be dead, running until April 19, 2025.