Jakman

Jakman is a self-taught painter originally from Senegal, who grew up in the Paris suburbs and lives there today. His practice is instinctive and very personal. He paints in acrylic, with a free gesture, in acid colours.

At the centre of his work stands the Cowboy Urbain, a self-portrait character present in every one of his works and always wearing a Stetson, his "crown". Jakman places him in everyday scenes and lends him his moments of joy as well as his disappointments. Cinema and fashion feed these images, as do the 1960s to the 1980s, which he did not live through. Also a model, he paints on fashion posters salvaged from the street too, work that he set apart from his canvases in the exhibition "The Coming of Age" in May 2022.

His canvases speak of human relationships and inner tensions, and come back to the question of identity. Characters and symbols answer one another like fragments of a story that can be read on several levels. Later came Shaka, the Cowboy Urbain's rival and a more feminine point of view.

Jakman first exhibited on 12 December 2019 in Paris, at the premises of BLK Patrimoine. The urban art gallery Ground Effect then showed his work twice. Ekow Galerie, which has represented him since 2022, presented him at Urban Art Fair, at the Carreau du Temple, in April 2023, then in "MMH", an exhibition inspired by martial arts, in March 2024.