Executed in 2016, Untitled by Aboudia is the perfect example of the artist’s visually arresting and hauntingly beautiful artistic production that draws inspiration from local street culture of his hometown Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Aboudia is celebrated for his heavily layered and brutally energetic paintings that combine an innocence and spontaneity with the portrayal of a dark dystopian landscape. Since the Ivorian civil war in 2011, the artist’s urban topographies have been haunted by trauma; armed soldiers, ominous skulls and a populace hemmed in by danger. Referencing characters from his neighbourhood, contemporary ‘Nouchi’ iconography and homage to the more traditional forms of Vodou, Aboudia’s artistic production thus depicts a claustrophobic and oppressive world in which pathos and pain hang in perfect equilibrium.