Our Story... is to tell Your Story
Hi Curious!
My name is Vanessa Selk, I am a Human, a Mother, a Radical Art Lover, a Tout-Monde Citizen, and the Founder of Toukan-Arthouse, an alternative art advisory and creative platform to match new generations of collectors with underrepresented artists.
As a child, I spent time playing and growing up in the Amazonian jungle of French Guiana. French Guiana is a culturally very rich and diverse territory, but it is a postcolonial dependency, hard to access and isolated from the rest of the world, in particular the art world.
Toukan-Arthouse was built on the desire to make art more accessible to those who have been marginalized by a dominant and hermetic art market.
On the collectors' side, we want to change the experience of a majority of people who walk into a gallery and feel awkward or uncomfortable because of certain behavioral codes, because of un-understandably high prices or because they do not identify with the artworks. Sounds familiar? We make sure the art is snob-free and accessible to all (no discrimination), that it resonates with your convictions and that it tells Your Story.
On the artist's side, we equally focus on communities that are underrepresented in the art market, and who have culturally diverse backgrounds, such as the Caribbean, LatinX, the African diaspora and Indigenous communities. We connect you directly to the collectors who share the same values.
By diversifying the collectors base and the artists represented in those collections, we hope to decolonize and diversify Art History one day.
Vanessa Selk
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