Born in 1953 in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Ky Siriki studied at the School of Fine Arts in Abidjan before settling in Burkina Faso. Convinced that the artistic act is a participative act, he works the bronze in situ to allow the visitor to observe his process. Anxious to perpetuate ancestral techniques, he creates his works outside, melting the bronze in a traditional forge. There is always, in the work of Ky Siriki, a pronounced emblematic slope, which refers to its African origins, conveying traces of a millennial culture from which – often outrageously – have drawn so many Western artists. He is the creator of the Laongo Sculpture Symposium in Burkina and curator of the Ben Amira Symposium in Mauritania. Siriki Ky has exhibited at the IFA gallery in Germany, in the Natural History Museum in Grenoble in France and at the Dak’Art biennial in Senegal among others.