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Mederic Turay (b. 1979, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, lives and works in Marrakech, Morocco) is a multidisciplinary storyteller who lives his art as a privilege and uses a plurality of techniques to create entities, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, which become the protagonists of his graphic stories. Turay was raised in the United States in the 1990s, where he was introduced to hip hop music, graphic novels, and the works of Picasso, Van Gogh, and Basquiat. He returned to the Ivory Coast as an adult to pursue his art education, and travelled widely in Africa in search of source materials and inspiration. Turay’s incandescent, vast canvases stage beguiling storylines of his global background and represent his effort to distill, through the performative physicality of painting, the essence of the contemporary human experience in our transactional, post-colonial society.