{"title":"Works on Canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOriginal paintings and mixed-media works on canvas by Hamed Ouattara. Each work is unique — signed by the artist and rooted in the visual culture, ancestral memory, and contemporary identity of Burkina Faso.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"whispers-from-the-sky","title":"Whispers from the Sky — Original Acrylic on Canvas","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhispers from the Sky is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work reaches upward — toward the cosmological dimension of Sahelian thought, toward the invisible forces that traverse the sky above the Sahel and shape the lives of those below. Ouattara's surface holds this verticality: light descending, mark and gesture ascending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003ccode class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 48 in \/ 122 cm · Width: 60 in \/ 152 \u003c\/code\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"%20\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Hamed Ouattara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45954881159326,"sku":"1","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/IMG_2205_SnapseedCopy.jpg?v=1757865366"},{"product_id":"council-of-faces","title":"Council of Faces","description":"\u003cp\u003eCouncil of Faces is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work evokes the gathering — the palaver, the council, the communal space of deliberation and transmission that structures West African social life. Multiple presences inhabit the canvas: faces that are both individual and archetypal, in conversation across time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 36 in \/ 91 cm · Width: 60 in \/ 152 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Hamed Ouattara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45955221323934,"sku":"SHO-ART-2022-006","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/35x70inc.jpg?v=1757292317"},{"product_id":"backwards-future","title":"Backwards Future — Canvas Folding \u0026 Collage Original","description":"\u003cp\u003eBackwards Future is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara. The work reflects on the tension between digital pixelation and ancestral spirituality, constructed from folded canvas and layered collage with acrylic paint. It stages a confrontation between two temporal registers — the hyper-contemporary and the immemorial — rendered visible through the materiality of the folded surface itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 39.3 in \/ 100 cm · Width: 39.3 in \/ 100 cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Canvas folding and collage with acrylic · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\" href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamed ouattara studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45955241017502,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/IMG_2236_SnapseedCopy.jpg?v=1757294966"},{"product_id":"bobo-dioulasso","title":"Bobo Dioulasso","description":"\u003cp\u003eBobo Dioulasso is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work is a visual meditation on Burkina Faso's second city — its Sudano-Sahelian architecture, its walled neighborhoods, the ochre light of the Sahel filtering through ancient facades. Bobo-Dioulasso recurs throughout Ouattara's practice as a site of memory and cultural rootedness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 45 in \/ 114 cm · Width: 60 in \/ 152 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Hamed Ouattara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45956988993694,"sku":"SHO-ART-2022-004","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/BOBO60X45IN.jpg?v=1757385183"},{"product_id":"sacred-patterns","title":"Sacred Patterns","description":"\u003cp\u003eSacred Patterns is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work investigates the formal languages embedded in West African visual traditions — the geometric vocabularies of Burkinabè textiles, architecture, and ritual objects — and transposes them into a contemporary painted surface. Pattern here is not decoration but code: a transmission of encoded cultural knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 39.4 in \/ 100 cm · Width: 39.4 in \/ 100 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamed ouattara studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45957004558494,"sku":"SHO-ART-2022-003","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/100x100cm.jpg?v=1757386320"},{"product_id":"ghost-archive","title":"Ghost Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003eGhost Archive is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work engages with memory as a material — what persists, what dissolves, what leaves a trace on a surface. Ouattara's layered technique produces an image that appears simultaneously emerging and disappearing, as if glimpsed through sediment or smoke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 45 in \/ 114 cm · Width: 60 in \/ 152 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Hamed Ouattara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45957026578590,"sku":"SHO-ART-2022-002","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/IMG_9586.jpg?v=1757387018"},{"product_id":"urban-rituals","title":"Urban Rituals","description":"\u003cp\u003eUrban Rituals is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2022. The work documents the visual rhythms of the city — the textures of walls, the geometry of markets, the repetition of gestures that constitute collective urban life in West Africa. Ouattara's painterly language translates the sensory density of Ouagadougou into a layered chromatic surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 59 in \/ 150 cm · Width: 59 in \/ 150 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). Represented by Friedman Benda Gallery, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/works-on-canvas\" title=\"→ Discover all Works on Canvas\"\u003e→ Discover all Works on Canvas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Studio Hamed Ouattara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965228736670,"sku":"SHO-ART-2022-001","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/7817\/4110\/files\/cohesion150x150cm.jpg?v=1757569370"},{"product_id":"flame-of-the-ancestors","title":"Flame of the Ancestors — Original Canvas by Hamed Ouattara","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlame of the Ancestors is a unique painting by Hamed Ouattara, created in 2025. The work channels the spiritual and visual vocabulary of Sahelian ancestral traditions — fire as a force of transmission, purification, and continuity. Painted in the artist's studio in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, it belongs to a body of works on canvas that runs parallel to Ouattara's furniture and sculpture practice, feeding its imagery and symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique work — 1 of 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e— Dimensions — Height: 19.5 in \/ 49.5 cm · Width: 15.5 in \/ 39 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Materials \u0026amp; Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V\u0026amp;A Museum (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum (Germany), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and Denver Art Museum (USA). 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