ART(ist)

ART(ist) #5

Kid Kréol & Boogie

The Reunionese collective Kid Kréol & Boogie created in December 2017 the mural painting L’Orée, a monumental work realised on one of the tanks of the Société Réunionnaise de de Produits Pétroliers (a Rubis Group subsidiary), which extends along the adjacent 48 meters wall located at the Pointe des Galets in Le Port, Réunion.

Kid Kréol & Boogie

Jean-Sébastien Clain and Yannis Nanguet were born in Saint-Denis, Reunion, in 1984 and 1983 and met as students at the School of Fine Art in Le Port. They decided to form the duo Kid Kréol & Boogie in 2008. They live and work in Saint-Denis.

Kid Kréol & Boogie’s work consists of unveiling an imaginary Reunionese Creole world. It has its roots in the Indian Ocean and in beliefs belonging to a culture that is gradually disappearing. As visual artists, their aim is to take this culture which is transmitted through music and orally in family circles to reflect and reinvent it in visual form. They have shown their work at several exhibitions, festivals and performance venues worldwide, in South Africa, Brazil, Madagascar and Slovakia.

Projet lié

L'Orée

Kid Kréol & Boogie

Reunion Island, France

2017

Artwork visible since 2017
La SRPP
Avenue du 28 novembre 1942, Le Port, La Réunion

Rubis Mécénat launched a call for projects in March 2017 to create a monumental work to be installed permanently at La Société Réunionnaise de Produits Pétroliers (SRPP) depot in Le Port, Réunion. The winning collective, Kid Kréol & Boogie, created a mural painting on the water tank located at the entrance to the depot, which also extends along the adjacent 48m wall. L’Orée depicts the sea and mountain terrain of Réunion, and more particularly Rivière des Galets, a true sanctuary in popular Réunion culture. The fresco depicts vegetation, roots and rocks, but does not reproduce a specific area. The artists were keen to transport the viewer instead into an imaginary landscape which was unknown yet familiar.