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His famously ludic sculptures have been seen by millions and in prominent squares and beaches in Odesa, Kyiv and beyond.

“When I started publishing in the 1990s I found myself at odds with what people were reading, with what they admired. I loved the Thomas Pynchon of the 1970s, J.G. Ballard, Donald Barthelme, John Barth. Their work had ludic elements and they were kind of crazed, and I was indebted to that experimental idea.”

There are ludic delights inside these grooves.

A riot of colors, ludic patterns, and subtle riffs on harlequins.

The Elimane file is a ludic tour of all the ways African literature can be erased: through contempt, through challenges to its authenticity, through a pious regard for noble savagery, through bemused and condescending politeness.