"A crackling intensity radiates from Aboudia's canvases, announcing an artist who refuses to dilute the world he has inherited or the world he envisions. His work carries the unmistakable heat of lived experienceurgent, unvarnished, and electrified by a cultural consciousness that rarely grants the luxury of distance. Aboudia does not depict his environment from afar. He inhabits it, metabolizes it, and returns it to the viewer with a fervor that feels inarguably intimate and oddly incendiary."
"His 2021 painting Nouchi Graffiti en Verte (36 x 36 in.) demonstrates this force with astonishing clarity, functioning less as a static image and more as a volatile field of vision where memory, conflict, humor, and exuberance continuously collide. Aboudia constructs his compositions through layers that operate like emotional strata. Each surface thrums with simultaneity. Soldiers, skulls, talismans, children, street relics, and fractured gestures surge forward only to be overtaken by new forms and interruptions."
Aboudia's canvases radiate a crackling intensity rooted in lived experience and cultural consciousness. He inhabits and metabolizes his environment, returning it with a fervor that feels intimate and incendiary. Nouchi Graffiti en Verte functions as a volatile field of vision where memory, conflict, humor, and exuberance collide. Compositions are built through layered emotional strata, with surfaces that thrums with simultaneity as soldiers, skulls, talismans, children, street relics, and fractured gestures surge and recede. The paintings insist on mobile focus, feeling alive, volatile, and fiercely sincere. Incorporation of comic strips, diaspora advertisements, newsprint, and media residue transforms cultural debris into infrastructure revealing globalization's pressures, Western media seduction, and enduring local identity.
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