François-Xavier Gbré

Born in Lille in 1978, François-Xavier Gbré lives and works between Ivory Coast and France. His work questions colonial vestiges and social change. His exploratory practice approaches photography as a medium for weaving a dialogue between context, environment, and memory. Represented by Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, his work has been exhibited in France and internationally, notably at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and at Tate Modern in London in 2023, and is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the FNAC – Fonds national d'art contemporain, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. In 2020, François-Xavier Gbré won the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles. In 2024, he was the first winner of the Latitudes programme of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès.