JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025 8pm PDT
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
Finalists Announced
September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
Voting closes
October 18, 2025
Winners announced
$18,200.00
Size
72" x 36"
Medium
Acrylic, wax fabric, plaster bas-relief, vinyl emulsion and collage on wooden poles
My work explores the emotional weight of symbols across cultures and histories. Through a layered process combining plaster bas-relief, collage, wax fabric, and acrylic, I create compositions that evoke memory, displacement, and interconnectedness. Rooted in a personal journey shaped by migration, my pieces recontextualize traditional visual codes within contemporary frameworks. Each symbol functions like a fragment—mapped, preserved, and reimagined—inviting the viewer to navigate a shifting terrain of identity and belonging. This evolving practice bridges past and present through texture, rhythm, and material tension, questioning where meaning resides and how it transforms across borders, both visible and invisible.
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Ghislain Brown-KossiVancouver, British Columbia
Ghislain Brown-Kossi is a self-taught contemporary artist, Canadian citizen born in France with Ivorian roots, based in Vancouver. His practice blends sculpture, plaster bas-reliefs, and African fabrics to explore memory, identity, and cultural heritage. His Sacred Objects series reflects on belonging and spiritual presence within diasporic narratives. Brown- Kossi’s work, held in public and private collections, has been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Through a symbolic language rooted in authentic cultural histories, he creates sculptural installations that invite reflection on identity dynamics and collective memory.