Ndayé Kouagou's 'Heaven's truth' Debuts at Collezione Maramotti

Ndayé Kouagou's first Italian solo exhibition, 'Heaven's truth,' opened at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, running from May 3 to July 26, 2026. The show features recent works alongside a new commission that explores language, AI, and the instability of meaning. Inspired by a photo comic, the central piece follows four hybrid dog-human figures navigating life, death, and judgment. A performance with Salber Lee Williams used colored placards to deconstruct statements, revealing how meaning shifts with context. The artist trained an AI on a heteronormative viewpoint to highlight biases in knowledge production. The exhibition is structured in three sequential chapters, requiring viewers to wait and watch fully before moving on—a deliberate contrast to fast-paced digital consumption. Works include 'Here and Elsewhere,' a video critiquing TV news, and sculptures like 'A coin is a coin' in plexiglass and resin.