Refugees
"At the camp, Aïcha acts like a magnet whenever she turns up. I too am a curiosity. My paintbrushes conjure up the good old times fifteen years ago in Timbuktu.
Nostalgia accumulates."
Abstracts
"The news from the country are bad. There’s nothing over there. They’ve lost everything. A father, a brother, a husband. The hamlet’s been looted. The herd’s been dispersed. The same calamity had shattered their parents’ existence. Before that, it had devastated their grandparents’. Fatality gets tiring. Daily life at the camp sinks into glum boredom.
Sometimes new faces arrive. A cousin from Niamey, from Bamako, or, practically every day, new families from the north. People touch one another, they embrace. Suddenly there’s laughter and conversation over tea.
Aïcha is listed as living at the camp with her little brothers and sisters, but she’s either luckier or richer: she’s found somewhere to stay in the town.
The government-in-exile of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) is also based in Ouaga at the moment. In the absence of action, there are long debates and an impression that this is destiny."
Extract from Retour à Tombouctou, 2015, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![Burkina Faso 812](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_aicha_naytou.jpg?itok=hOJX7-6Y)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
65 x 42 cm
![Burkina Faso 814](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_camp_sag_nioniogo.jpg?itok=2-QXWj2r)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
52 x 73 cm
![Burkina Faso 816](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_retrouvailles.jpg?itok=GYsTWtUK)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
Oil on paper
56 x 76 cm
![Burkina Faso 818](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_aicha_de_tombouctou2.jpg?itok=hMbbArqu)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
61 x 46 cm
![Burkina Faso 820](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_maya.jpg?itok=mpXqpQEb)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
56 x 43 cm
![Burkina Faso 823](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_ennui_et_telephone.jpg?itok=yktcn2iJ)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Oil on paper
46 x 61 cm
![Burkina Faso 824](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_les_gens_de_bariz-tombouctou.jpg?itok=cidb_ck4)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
C-Print
120 x 194 cm
![Burkina Faso 961](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_mariam_wt_0.jpg?itok=V0V1_FCI)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
54 x 46 cm
![Burkina Faso 830](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_coulibaly.jpg?itok=rpgzi7Tv)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
Pencil and acrylic on paper
65 x 42 cm
![Burkina Faso 832](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_aicha_kel_oulli.jpg?itok=vmI8h15o)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
Photograph and oil on canvas
49 x 40 cm
![Burkina Faso 962](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_regards_vers_tombouctou_0.jpg?itok=Nbkj9s4T)
Camp of Mentao, Burkina Faso
Oil on canvas
74 x 99 cm
![Burkina Faso 828](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvres_mariam_wt_eriah.jpg?itok=gmWySU0i)
Camp of Saagniognogo, Burkina Faso
Acrylic on paper
55 x 42 cm
Making-of
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_burkina_faso_refugies1.jpg?itok=8pGVz9fi)
© Gwen Le Bras
![Illustration Making Of](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/width-half/public/uploads/illustration/tit_2017_makingof_burkina_faso_refugies2.jpg?itok=_a303SMC)
© Gwen Le Bras