During a three-week stay in Assinie, I immersed myself in the rhythms of coastal life, documenting the labor and exchanges that sustain the fishing community. This series emerges from that experience, combining locally sourced newspapers from Côte d’Ivoire with photographs I captured on site and painted portraits of individuals directly engaged in the trade. and visibility. The newspapers carry institutional narratives; economic, political, and mediated while the photographs act as fragments of lived observation. The painted figures, rendered in deep tonal contrasts, resist full assimilation into either space, occupying a threshold between presence and erasure. The works examine how labor is both seen and overlooked, physically evident in daily practice, yet often obscured within broader structures of circulation and value. By merging documentation with abstraction, the series proposes a shifting archive where memory, identity, and environment remain in constant negotiation.
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