Demonstrations and meeting with the glass painter Otetela
Demonstrations of cutting and painting in silver yellow glass.
I am Oto. "A being" in my mother tongue Tetetla. I am Otetela from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
My work is a cross between the ancestral art of stained glass and the soul of graffiti art. Today, with the freedom of graffiti, I work the light of silver yellow with the aerosol can and in all the moods that this blinding can offer me. It is a cementation between the ions of my will and the ions of freedom of this colour. An exchange. An understanding. Freedom.
I want to express instinct, nature, the freedom of graffiti with rigour, precision, the light of glass.
Tags, words are at the beginning of graffiti. The words in Tetela in my creations are the link between my Congolese cultural family heritage and my French social and artistic learning. My mother tongue is the spirit of my culture. I speak with my eyes in my eyes. I share who I am with my eyes in my eyes. A look is unique but a universal language. It is very difficult to cheat with the look. It is the most instinctive and free expression.
When I make a wall a creation, I am free. When a person is in front of my work, he is free. I want to continue to respect everyone’s freedom to feel, to think, to understand, to hear. To be.
Oto.