Born in 1978 in Lille, France. He lives and works between France (Marais Poitevin) and Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Living and working between France and Côte d’Ivoire, this mixed-race Ivorian artist, who grew up in the North of France, faces Côte d’Ivoire’s change, economic growth, great urban expansion, and above all vestiges. Step by step, François-Xavier Gbré creates a landscape of his own through a collection of photographs, which reveal hidden aspects of everyday life. In 2015, his work was displayed in the exhibition The Lay of the Land for the Walther Collection Project Space in New York as well as in a personal exhibition, The Past is a Foreign Country at the Canto Fitzgerald Gallery in Haveford College, USA.