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Eddy Firmin Sculptures

b. 1971
Eddy Firmin is interested in the politics of knowledge sharing and the epistemic conflicts they engender in the colonized artist. He thus seeks to remedy the codes of an ancestral practice, the Gwoka (between dance, song, storytelling and music). The latter belongs to a humpbacked epistemology, i.e. to a very large family of Afro-Caribbean practices built to resist colonial violence (such as the Paracumbé, Guineo, Bélè, Calenda, Bomba, Tambú, etc.). This compelling need to transfer ancestral codes to recent visual mediums is due to the fact that my islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique have not produced a visual tradition to which I can refer because of the prohibitions of slavery on a restricted perimeter. Apart from resistance, one of the main codes of this practice is lokans. Specific to the singer/songwriter, its aim is to mask the resistance of the slaves under the finery of a plastic song driven by technical virtuosity. The lokans is then the shield of flowers behind which the war rumbles, because it is also the art of double language. Thus, my practice, among other codes, uses this one. Technicity and aesthetics aim to seduce, and the background discourse allied to other types of codes aim to resist the master discourses (in the arts, as well as in the social space). Originally from the French Caribbean (Guadeloupe), Eddy Firmin is an artist-researcher. He holds a doctorate in Arts Studies and Practices from the Université du Québec à Montréal [Canada] and a master’s degree from the visual art school of Le Havre-Rouen [France]. He is the publishing director of the decolonial magazine Minorit’Art. In his works, he questions the transcultural logics of his identity and the balance of forces at play in it. On a theoretical level, he is working on a Méthode Bossale, a proposal for the decolonization of the imaginary in art.
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Artist: Eddy Firmin
Contemporary Ceramic and Metal Sculpture, 2010-Present, Unframed
Contemporary Ceramic and Metal Sculpture, 2010-Present, Unframed

Contemporary Ceramic and Metal Sculpture, 2010-Present, Unframed

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Located in Montreal, Quebec

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Metal

Signe Émotionnel "Égo", Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, 2010- Unframed
Signe Émotionnel "Égo", Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, 2010- Unframed

Signe Émotionnel "Égo", Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, 2010- Unframed

By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Ceramic

Untitled II Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 24x8 in
Untitled II Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 24x8 in

Untitled II Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 24x8 in

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Untitled Contemporary Sculpture, Mixed Media on Cardboard, 2010-
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By Eddy Firmin

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Untitled Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 10x6x15 in
Untitled Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 10x6x15 in

Untitled Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 10x6x15 in

By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Our histories are written in and on our bodies. Our identities are inseparable from our physical experiences, which are in turn shaped by genetic, cultural, and epigenetic heritages ...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Signe Émotionnel \"Égo\", No. 3 Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary Art
Signe Émotionnel \"Égo\", No. 3 Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary Art

Signe Émotionnel \"Égo\", No. 3 Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary Art

By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Signe Émotionnel "Égo" Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, 2010s, Unframed

Signe Émotionnel "Égo" Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, 2010s, Unframed

By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

Through his impactful self-portrait in thoughtfully ornamented ceramic, makes an uncomfortable connection between the slavery of the past and the slavery of today: overconsumption, a...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Untitled Wood Sculpture, Contemporary, Figurative, 2010+, Unframed
Untitled Wood Sculpture, Contemporary, Figurative, 2010+, Unframed

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By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Untitled Diptych Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 2010-Present
Untitled Diptych Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 2010-Present

Untitled Diptych Sculpture, Contemporary Mixed Media, 2010-Present

By Eddy Firmin

Located in Montreal, Quebec

The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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Metal

Untitled I Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 23x11 in
Untitled I Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 23x11 in

Untitled I Ceramic Sculpture, Contemporary, 2010+, Unframed, 23x11 in

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The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

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2010s Contemporary Eddy Firmin Sculptures

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