Tesprit
Tesprit
Biography
Born in Lomé, Togo in 1994.
Lives and works in Lomé, Togo.
Foli Kossi Gérard TETE, aka Tesprit, is a self-taught artist.
Tesprit invites us into the contrasting world of the Dzimakplao, Togo's street children, and allows us to apprehend the precarity and vulnerability, but also the playfulness and optimism omnipresent in the daily lives of these children. The artist works with worn-out flip-flops salvaged from Lomé's rubbish dumps, each containing a unique story of perseverance and courage.
Solo shows
2021 French Institute - Onomo Hotel, Dzimakplao, Lomé, Togo.
Galerie Soview, Dzimakplao, Accra, Ghana.
2022 Mathilde Le Coz Gallery, Les invisibles, Paris, France.
Nov'art Gallery, Les oubliés, Cotonou, Bénin.
Castello Di Tutino, Gli abbandonati, Tricase, Italy.
2023 Fondation FORE, Eclore demain, Guadeloupe, France.
Artco, Forgotten faces, Brussels, Belgium.
2024 Nivart center, We have vessels but where is water?, New Delhi, India.
Group shows
2022 French Institute, Restitution Gnanamaya, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
Off Dak’art Biennale, Construire, déconstruire, reconstruire, Dakar, Sénégal.
Gallery BART, Connection, Amsterdam, Nederlands.
Gallery soview, AKAA Art Fair, Paris, France.
2023 Artco, Investec, Cape town, South Africa.
Not a Gallery, Ethnique, Paris, France.
Gallery 1957, The Evil Genius, Accra, Ghana.
Windsor gallery, The Evil Genius, Lagos, Nigeria.
Artco, Chromatic choices, Aachen, Germany.
Gallery soview, BAD Art Fair, Bordeaux, France.
1.54 art fair, The Evil Genius Mr Eazi Album, London, England.
2024 Le reservoir, Lille Art Up, Lille, France.
Le reservoir, Le pinceau du griot, Montpellier, France.
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