He is completing a study
of fabulation in black aesthetics and embarking on another on queer wildness.
As an intervention, Kouoh proposes alternative historical, political, and material associations across taxonomies of artefact, artwork, and object to illuminate the role systems of display and accession play in
historical fabulation.
On the contrary, it is to be found in the artistic exercise of transforming common material in a sort of evocative new imagery, involving the viewer in
reminiscent fabulations of the real.»
Whereas Les Sauvages was a decorative
neoclassical fabulation, In Pursuit of Venus [infected] is brought to life with the sights and sounds of dance and cultural ceremonies enacted by living, breathing peoples — bringing together both past and present.
Unmediated by the silver screen, the camera - ready relics of our cinematic imagination reveal themselves to be transparently phony, smirking all the while at our naive belief in
fabulation.
Throughout the footage in Amboy, a sense of documentary remains in even the most fantastical scenes (or, as Scholz puts it, «reality fucks with fiction»), and the viewer is left with a document of the film's process as well as
the fabulations and drama of its plot.