17/12/2025
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Gallery ILÉ is delighted to announce that works by the Beninese visual artist Nathanaël Vodouhè has been selected to join the prestigious Art Club of The European Medicines Agency.
The collection was officially unveiled Tuesday 16 December 2025, in presence of Mr. Franck Diafouka, Head of Internal Audit and several members of EMA’s welcoming committee.
Taking center stage underneath the 81 meters high atrium, 4 of Vodouhè’s iconic mixed media on burned wood sculptures are currently adorning the main entrance hall, where they are greeting EMA’s 1500 staff members, and the esteemed organization’s extensive network of associates and accredited visitors.
The following works are in view:
Sovereignty
Grace
Cosmogenesis
The Oracle
SYNOPSIS:
As if rising from the magmatic pools of alien volcanos, these sculptures are the reincarnations of scorched souls. Enthralled in parts, baring ashen cracks and adorned with imperial cloaks of shimmering pigmentations, these ethereal totemic entities are hinting at the fuming wounds inflicted by the harshness of a world that too often undermines the symbiotic beauty of human interrelations and instead chooses to destroy its environment.
The arresting visual narrative of Nathanaël Vodouhè further brings into play polarizing emotions like kindness & cruelty, or dogmatic stances on good vs evil, light vs darkness or intemporality vs finality. Seemingly interacting in harmony, upon closer look, these emphatic dichotomies denounce in fact, the sins of a modern society trapped in a race against itself, evermore concerned with mass production, the accumulation of material possessions and generating profits, at any cost, even if it means consuming our inherent humanity from the inside out.
Vodouhè’s whimsical emissaries from the forest are on view from 16 December 2025 through 27 February2026.
