#2
Viola Renate
Dutch Amsterdam’s hybrid painter and inventor of Ecstatic Surface Design Viola Renate produces interior wall candies, alluring space-expanding portals, carpets to levitate from and pre-rolled wallpapers, all available at her onlineshop.
VR sparks-up Papes #2 with her other-worldly, electric Aphrodite, striking her way through smoke clouds, embellished with crystallised bling.
Obou Gbais
Ivorian artist Obou Gbais paints vibrant works of art which challenge the human condition and his Ivorian identity, incorporating an abundance of traditional mask drawings for Papes #2, each hold their own character.
Gbais studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Abidjan and now lives and works between Abidjan and Berlin. His work draws on his personal experiences of the military and political crises in Côte d'Ivoire, using distorted and expressive faces, often referred to as grimasques, to reflect impacts of trauma, violence, and social resistance.
Valentin Pavageau
Brussels based French artist Valentin Pavageau builds optically psychedelic and surreal digital collages. His dream-state artwork for Papes #2 highlights observation, staging an outer-worldly scenario, the meeting of two official minds. Pavageau’s clientele include The New York Times, Universal Music, and Stones Throw Records.
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