Joana Choumali’s Abidjan Daydreamers

Joana Choumali’s Abidjan Daydreamers

The artist’s paintings observe both our emotional and physical terrains In Joana Choumali’s tranquil, luminous mixed-media canvas The Day Dreamer (2025), the scene is alight with the amber jewels of streetlights of Abidjan’s early-morning landscape. Layered onto the stillness of this digital photograph printed on cotton canvas is a bounty of embroidered flora and fauna spilling out across the canvas, where the titular character stands larger tha…