
statement of the artist
Art as a tool in the search for identity
an exploration between abstraction and humanity by chérif Mama
WHY I PAINT
"I paint to tell what can't be told, to give shape to the silences and outbursts of the soul."
Since childhood, painting has been my most honest language. When words fail, colors take over.
I paint to translate what I feel about the world: its raw beauty, its contradictions, its tensions between individuality and wholeness.
My work is like a broken mirror: each fragment reflects a facet of human identity.
I borrow from cubism its freedom to deconstruct, and from abstraction its power of emotion.
I create fragmented faces, bodies shot through with vivid colors, to express the coexistence of differences - within us and around us.
For me, painting is about finding links where there is distance. It's about opening up space for ambiguity, for feeling, for what words can't say.