Nuits Balnéaires - Eboro

Nuits Balnéaires has established a hybrid practice between fine art, fashion, and research. His life is rooted in Grand-Bassam, east of Abidjan. This project introduces a more autobiographical dimension to his work. It begins in Dakar, Senegal, where, in 1986, his uncle, Noël X. Ebony, a journalist and playwright, died in unresolved circumstances. In the Agni-Bona tradition of Côte d’Ivoire, which has profoundly shaped the artist, the nephew plays a key role in accompanying the uncle during his transition into the afterlife. Nuits Balnéaires created Eboro by intuition, allowing familial memory to shape the visual chapters of this work. He welcomes the melancholy and trauma of his uncle’s story with gentleness and hope, probing how imagination can contribute to healing transgenerational wounds.
Eboro was created as part of the Latitudes program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.

Nuits Balnéaires, Adama et Awa 3, Eboro, 2025
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