Ernest Dükü, born in 1958 in Bouake, Ivory Coast, lives and works between Paris and Abidjan. He began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1982. He has degrees in Interiors Architecture (Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1986), Arts aesthetic and science (Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, 1990) and Architecture (Ecole d’architecture Paris La Défense, 1991). His works are linked with the language of symbols and the ideograms from Akan signs. Always searching for confluences between the spirituality from ancestor, symbolism and syncretism. He is working with drawing, painting and sculpturing as the medium he chooses to « becomes a means of access to knowledge » as he says.