Agnès Djafri, a visual artist born in 1968, has lived in a multicultural environment, with Guadeloupean and Berber-Algerian roots. Her family encouraged her to draw, paint, dance, sing, invent and create. In high school, she specialized in the plastic arts, then went on to art school in Martinique, before expressing herself professionally through mural painting, textiles and computer graphics. She lives and works in Guadeloupe.

Her vision, like her work, is colored by her taste for poetry, raw color, gesture and research. Amerindian petroglyphs, Kandinsky and Keith Haring influence her attraction to graphics and line. Matisse, Klein, Picasso and the discovery of women artists on every continent inspire her. She is also attached to the art of comics, Japan, calligraphy, Gnostic and Buddhist philosophy.

Her technique brings her closer to urban art, pop art and neo-expressionism. She loves materials, different supports, light, writing and sound. Her contemporary writing, with its flat tints and dark circles, places her quest for consciousness in the context of everyday reality. She sees the human being as a perpetual search for the balance that keeps the tightrope walker on life's tightrope.

Agnès has decided to devote herself entirely to a struggle to abolish her egos. She pays constant attention to her reactions and emotions. She strives to find every trace of pride, anger or reserve in herself. Her aim? To understand what it is that creates such turmoil within her, and to deconstruct it in order to make room for awareness, and find inner peace.

For as long as she can remember, Agnès has been fascinated by philosophy and psychoanalysis. She explains that she was already reading Freud in secondary school, and much later, Matthieu Ricard, Laurent Gounelle, Paulo Coelho, Aun Weor... For several years now, Agnès has been studying the great principles common to all civilizations: love + respect + meditation.

It is this introspection that she shares with us in her works. She mixes extracts of poetry she imagines, powerful symbols in the Caribbean imagination, and sparks of hope for humanity.