Meschac Gaba was born in 1961 in Cotonou, Benin. He studied at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 1996-97, and currently lives between Rotterdam and Cotonou
As if to question identity, the cultural difference and the postcolonial relations, the work of Meschac Gaba ranges from painting to sculpture, the structure, the recycled object or the model of cities made out of artificial braided hair.