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Gourma Land: A CARAS Grant Exhibition by Eliezer "El" Lompo
Gourma Land is a collection of prints and paintings that represent the Gourmantche people of eastern Burkina Faso. As a person of Gourmantche descent, my main goal is to visually represent the history, culture and traditions of my people through a traditional lens rather than a lens of colonial influence. The images created all connect to spiritual, cultural, and royal traditions and include portraits and scenes of important moments and people in Gourmantche history.