Eric Magassa
Eric Magassa (Linköping 1972) is a Swedish multimedia artist based in Gothenburg, whose work explores the intersection of both his own personal identity (that being a fusion of Swedish, French, and Senegalese roots), with the greater (post)colonial narrative. With masks playing a central role since the very beginning of his career, the show revisits the idea that the mask is both a physical artefact, as well as symbolic of humanity’s complex psyche. Using fragments from archival images of stolen West African artefacts, Magassa reconstructs, distorts, and refurbishes these images into ten of his own vinyl mask collages, a process which simultaneously rewrites stolen narratives.
