Sacred Patterns

Sacred 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.

Unique work — 1 of 1

— Dimensions — Height: 39.4 in / 100 cm · Width: 39.4 in / 100 cm

— Materials & Technique — Mixed media on canvas · Handcrafted at Studio Hamed Ouattara, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso · 2022

— Provenance — Works by Hamed Ouattara are held in the permanent collections of the V&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.

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