Aboubakar Fofana

Aboubakar Fofana is a textile designer, artisan, indigo dyer, artist and teacher. He has exhibited in joint and solo shows throughout the world, and continues to share his passions through his work and teaching. He has collaborated with interior and fashion designers, as well as with ceramicists, leatherworkers and other artisans, and his work and his story have been included in a number of books on indigo and African design. Aboubakar's art is directly informed by the raw materials he uses. The cyclical movements of the natural world, the way time alters living things, the beauty of these changes and their ephemeral states, are all mirrored in his work. His fermented indigo vats are living, teeming with bacteria that must be nurtured and maintained in a delicate balance to produce the beautiful shades of his textiles.