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Rakajoo: Quatre chemins

Past exhibition
16 November 2024 - 18 January 2025 Paris
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Rakajoo French, b. 1986

Quatre Chemins, 2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in
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Quatre Chemins presents an intimate and meticulously constructed scene of an interior hallway or locker room space, rendered in a palette of cool blues and greys with contrasting accents of...
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Quatre Chemins presents an intimate and meticulously constructed scene of an interior hallway or locker room space, rendered in a palette of cool blues and greys with contrasting accents of red and wood tones. A slightly skewed perspective invites the viewer to step into the narrow, elongated corridor, where a bench and hooks line the wall, suggesting a transitory space—one between movement and rest, exposure and intimacy. In the distance, an open door offers a glimpse of a vivid, almost theatrical red and blue-lit room beyond, injecting tension and narrative ambiguity into the quiet geometry of the foreground.




This small-format painting exemplifies Rakajoo’s signature approach, blending architectural precision with psychological depth. The title Quatre Chemins—literally “Four Paths” in French—evokes the name of a transit junction or urban periphery, often charged with symbolic meaning in suburban Parisian contexts. Here, it may refer not only to a geographic location but to an existential crossroads, a metaphor for choice, passage, or disorientation.


Rakajoo's use of skewed perspective and vanishing lines introduces a sense of cinematic suspense and spatial dislocation. The viewer is placed in a liminal zone: neither inside nor fully outside, with the door ajar and light spilling from the room beyond. This ambiguity is heightened by the almost sterile, institutional setting, suggestive of locker rooms, waiting areas, or backstage spaces—places of preparation and transformation.


By fusing clean architectural lines with a painterly surface, Rakajoo constructs a tension between control and affect. The minimal human presence, conveyed only through suggestion (the door left open, the empty bench), is a hallmark of his work. It invites reflection on absence, on memory, and on the echoes left behind in spaces that frame our lives without always holding us.


This piece, though modest in scale, is rich in implication—at once rooted in the everyday and vibrating with metaphysical undertones.

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