Yaméogo seeks to share the manifold filiations of people in flux. Throughout the world, countless migrants roam, each with their own multifaceted cultural identity, shaped by different countries, languages, cultures, and citizenships. The question “Where are you from?” implies fuzzy logic, where all the answers are partly true and partly false. How can we convey the total of our identity, of where we come from, where our parents are from, where we have lived, where our friends and family are? How could we possibly record all this on an official identity document? In obscuring the faces of her subjects, Yaméogo respectfully and sensitively evokes their stories without ever overexposing them.

Yaméogo’s personal histories and relationships are perceived rather than understood, suggestive of the journeys and connections that join us across the Tout- Monde. These filiations are rooted in bonds of trust, not of blood or documentation, and are a counterpoint to the modern borders that are designed to contain and divide, rather than to mark the transition from one landscape to another.

The shimmering, fuzzy logic of Yaméogo’s paintings celebrates fluctuating definitions of identity and the quivering of the world. She catches on canvas the hummingbird-like nature of an individual in perpetual physical and metaphysical movement. Blurred limbs in motion outline memories of the places we’ve passed through, reminding us how wandering (déambulation) can transform our perspective.