In this compelling solo show, La vie s’est un compte, Famakan Magassa maps the intricate ledger of human experience tallying stories of migration, memory, and cultural inheritance. At Galerie Sabine Bayasli, his surreal tableau of elongated, barbed-wire-bound figures and saturated palettes offers a visual audit of our collective past and present. 

The title Life is an accounting invites viewers to reflect on how histories are recorded, erased, and remembered. Through his grotesque characters reminiscent of Mali’s Kôrêdugaw ritual clowns, Magassa balances satire with solemnity: blindfolded, faceless, yet unmistakably wise. Each mark, each silhouette, is a line item in an emotional ledger. 

Magassa’s work draws from personal odysseys the bureaucratic gauntlets of visas, the invisible wounds of exile, the tension between modern belonging and ancestral ties. What appears at first glance as abstract exaggeration reveals itself as a precise critique of systemic constraints and the resilience of diasporic identity. 

�� Galerie Sabine Bayasli, 99 rue du Faubourg Saint‑Honoré, Paris 8e 

�� Exhibition runs until June 14