In 2000 Ange & Damnation read “Allah is not obliged” by A Kourouma and were very troubled
by this story.  They know West Africa, regularly spend time there, and find there part of their inspiration.

They begin a work on the child soldiers. These sculptures are inspired by children recruited
into the African guerillas and elsewhere. The child soldiers are victims of fraticidal massacres where torturer and victim become confused, one can become the other according to the hazard of destiny.
In their Parisian studio they sculpt with passion centuries old coal blackened oak planks discovered in cellars– the first of the  “Child soldier” works. Fifteen such sculptures arecreated, forming a group, an army, a forest.

In 2004 ARTE magazine commissions a series of drawings of the child soldiers to illustrate
a project “Children of the streets, children of war”.games
Some sculptures have been sold to collectors and have gone, but others have been created,
the installation thus evolving and inciting reaction against this scourge where children are assassinated to general indifference. This forest of children at attention is a constant artistic witness of the face of barbary.

At the same time, in their studio in Burkino Faso, Ange et Damnation cast small bronze figurines of child soldiers, discrete reminders full of humanity of these monstruous deeds. Assembling these bronzes, original and unique creative works in twos or threes, they illustrate the death
of a child soldier surrounded by other children and their marabout or immortalise the child soldiers posing for an imaginary photographer.