Presentation

Ernest Dükü is an artist from Côte d'Ivoire, born in 1958 in Bouaké. He studied at INSAAC, part of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts d'Abidjan. He continued his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. He studied Aesthetics and Art Sciences at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, and also obtained a diploma of Architect D.P.L.G at the Paris la Défense School of Architecture in Nanterre. His creative work questions what he calls “the unsaid things that clutter our memories”. In an interview with Mary Nooter Roberts entitled Writing Identities, published in the journal African Arts UCLA, he addresses some of these issues. He lives and works between Abidjan and Paris.