Gbais Obou was born Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1992. His artistic production almost exclusively focuses on the 2002 political-military crisis in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the Ivorian people, while also originating from Obou’s own traumatic memories. A typical and constant feature of his works are the deformed faces of his subjects, as it is impossible for him to talk about war, trauma, suffering and oppression without also taking into account mental transformations and physical deformations.