INSPIRATION
Hang’Art Africa carries an outsized ambition, and owns it: to tear down the borders of the art world and shake up a market that still decides, far too often, which works get to exist.
We work with the artists we vibe with, those whose gesture echoes our own, wherever they are. And we fiercely champion the Black artists this market underrates, underpays, underexposes, the ones whose talent leaps off the canvas while the established circuits would rather keep them in the shadows.
We believe in art that’s raw, defiant, art that apologizes for nothing. Art born in the margins that makes the margins its material, that turns rage into gesture and beauty into a weapon. Work that doesn’t seek to please but to speak, to shake, to leave a mark. Art isn’t here to decorate the world, it’s here to hold it up, to defy it, to reinvent it.
That’s what drives us. To shift the lines, widen the field of the possible, carve out roads where there were only walls.
Where we come from...
The creator of HANG’ART Africa, Céline Fatoux Hagoye, comes from the Burundian-Rwandan diaspora. Born to a Belgian mother and a Burundian-Rwandan father, she was adopted in France where she grew up while maintaining a permanent link with her origins.
Her journey of personal resilience evolves in step with that of Rwanda. Torn apart yesterday, the country holds its destiny in its own hands and has become an essential hub, which attracts a connected and creative African diaspora that identifies with its success. Céline Fatoux Hagoye’s ambivalent professional development led her to a creative activity of audiovisual production (contemporary art and science). It is throughout Africa that she decides to draw her source of inspiration and defend an alternative and arborescent artistic vision: get out of narrow and compartmentalized ecosystems, to develop an incubator and an innovative space of expression. Creative.
“Returning” is not just an ideological concept stopping at Ghana’s Door, it is a continental reality that can be informed and realized through a nomadic and alternative artistic hub like HANG’ART Africa“. CFH
Franck Fanny
An Architect of ideas
“A few years ago, when I met Franck Fanny on a shoot and discovered his artistic work, I became long obsessed with the idea of making a film about him as an artist, about his personality, his universe.
I was fascinated by such a multifaceted, creative brute force. There was an engineer, a businessman, a media producer and a visceral artist, all in one man. His photographic work opened a door for me to a new dimension that I suspected but had never seen before. His talent is undeniable, he has exhibited in famous venues, received awards, yet to me he seemed larger than the rather narrow, codified, scripted and hierarchical contemporary art world. His works did not correspond to any standard, any label or any box in which one tried to put them.
We had to discuss for hours about a way to let his works express themselves in all their intensity and authenticity, without being reduced by a conformist environment.
Rather than wanting to revolutionize an established order, the solution was to invent another space, parallel, alternative, avant-garde whose sole purpose would be to sublimate artistic expression, where indomitable art would remain free and where the artist would not be a tool but the essential: HANG’ART Africa.
Franck Fanny passed away to join our ancestors on July 2, 2021, may he rest in peace. The lights don’t die.”