Friki Papoua

A multi-unskilled, multi-disciplinary artist, Friki Papoua has made amateurism, improvisation and failure the very principles of her creation. Faced with any technical device, she’s quick to press all the buttons at once, telling herself that something will come out of it. As soon as the result approaches some threshold of technical or artistic acceptability, Friki Papoua mercilessly sends it to the scrap heap, making it join the dustbin of aesthetically-compliant objects. In other words, Papoua produces very little. After all, to fail to such a superlative degree is much more difficult than you might think.

Portrait of Friki Papoua by Marcel Janco 1918
Portrait of Friki Papoua by Marcel Janco 1918