Ricardo
Ozier
Lafontaine

Ricardo Ozier-Lafontaine is a plastician who lives and works in Martinique, FWI. His pieces are composed with the use of automatic drawing and painting. A practice that has driven him to a graphic trance allowing him to verbalize rhythms, sensations and inner tensions. ​ After studying visual communication in Paris, he has majored in special education for children in danger and become a professional in this field.  Since their inception, his artworks have combined the discovery and exploration of visual arts as well as the appropriation of ritual Afro-Caribbean drumbeat. The artist has been deeply influenced by pre-Columbian archaeology, which has had a lasting aesthetic impact on his artistic work. His plastic expression has been subjected to continuous renewal over the last few years, and has tapped into the singularity of his imaginative sources. He transcribes the contours of his “topography of the inner world”, giving a free space of expression to the multiple influences that animate his creation and which, through the tracings of bi-chromic blacks and whites, reveal the hybrid characters welling up from his syncretic imagination that are named the “Intercessors”.