Binta Diaw’s artistic practice unfolds at the crossroads of philosophical and historical reflections on the social phenomena that shape our contemporary world — migration, belonging, the relationship to history and its archives, and questions of gender. Her work often takes the form of installations and site-specific projects, sometimes reaching monumental dimensions.
Drawing on intersectional and ecofeminist thought, Diaw places particular emphasis on physical and sensory experience. Her works become spaces where the power of materiality — its textures, energies, and resonances — engages perception and thought. Earth, plants, water, stone, hair, and at times her own body, compose a visual language that continually reminds us of our organic, ever-changing nature, as well as our social and political existence.
Often conceived in dialogue with their environment, her installations invite viewers to reconnect with their own position in the world in order to grasp the multiplicity of meanings and relationships at play.
Rooted in her diasporic and fluid identity, Binta Diaw reexamines dominant historical narratives, reintroducing plurality through a remarkable economy of means. Her work thus proposes a decentering of Eurocentric perspectives and affirms the artistic gesture as a complex act of historical rewriting.