Iguma

Curated by Enfant Précoce

Posted: September 13, 2021
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Iguma is a traditional Japanese restaurant located in Saint-Anne, a famous street know for Asian food.

I love going to this street for a walk and then stop by Iguma. The excitement of discovering a new spicy sensation gets me every time. This is like going to a show, you can see the chef cooking right in front of you! It’s always a pleasure to see someone practices their art for others.

Artist Information

About the Author

Enfant Précoce is a painter, born in Cameroon in 1989. He discovered art with his uncle Malam Essoua, a sculptor, whose life as a free artist inspired him. And, he dances. This first love for movement led Francis Essoua alias Enfant Précoce to paint, with which he fell in love in 2013. His canvases mix bodies, sometimes stretched, sometimes relaxed, hands apart, legs projected between African faces and masks. A thousand and one colors bloom. It is the color of Enfant’s tales. Enfant Précoce tells us stories that touch on the universal. The world takes the form of a myth animated by its characters like apparitions captured in color and disproportion. The storyteller's voice is in our eyes. Everywhere they look. He questions, he evaluates. Something of a presence, the gesture, inhabits his creations, apparently spontaneous, but which, nevertheless, obey a constraint. And while Enfant Précoce shares, Enfant Précoce goes on a quest. Triangles nose, clover nose; fleshy or scarlet mouths; large hands and open hands; flower garden… he explores. His paintings are an invitation to decipher signs, rebuses, symbols; an invitation to play on cultural variations. 
In the end, obviously, the emotion.