KOUKA NTADI UGANDA, 2025 Acrylic paint and gravel on skateboard board 20 x 80 cm Gift of the artist Kouka Ntadi is a French-Congolese artist who graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. He is street artist and hip-hop singer, he expresses himself through painting, graffiti and rap. Wielding both He works both in public spaces and in his studio. His work focuses on the themes of identity, the quest for self and origins. His distinctive style denounces, questions, sometimes amuses and always the human condition. Following in the footsteps of her grandfather, artist Francis Gruber, who had a genuine dialogue with the forest towards the end of his life, Gruber has begun to take an interest in the forest. forest began to play an important part in Kouka Ntadi's work a few years ago. years ago. His iconic figures, symbolising the memories of civilisations, were first placed in in the midst of trees, like a score of constituent elements of the same world playing the same music of life the same music of life: the representation of what is fragile and precious at the same time. The spectator is then invited to journey among the raw emotions of a forest that expresses itself as a single Man stripped of all pomp of which only the light remains... Website: www.kouka.me Instagram: @kouka_ntadi © Kouka Ntadi