Charles-David Gnangoran (b. 1998), also so known as Chada, is an Ivorian multidisciplinary emerging artist currently living and working in Marseille, France.
Born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Chada graduated from INSAAC (Institut National Supérieur des Arts et de l’Action Culturelle) in Fine Art and Architecture and is now pursuing his artistic journey at Les Beaux Art de Marseille, France. Chada’s practice revolves around ceramics and sculpture as well as tapestries made out of collage, painting, and serigraphy; he uses found objects, such as burlap bag used to transport cocoa.
Chada’s work forges and explores an idea that identity is repeated, has a pattern, but evolves through this repetition. His practice overlaps, juxtaposes, collides, and connects histories and people, weaving bonds and establishing bridges to recount what exists or, conversely, to be the origin of new narratives.