The 19M continues its partnership with IFAN to reinstall its Gallery at the Musée Théodore-Monod d'Art Africain, and renews the editorial committee to design the programming. From June 14 to July 14, the Galerie du 19M Dakar 2024 will revive the fruitful dialogue between the Métiers d'art and Senegal's creative scene.
The program has been designed by an editorial committee made up of Senegalese creative personalities and experts on the country's art scene:
- Riad Fakhri, founder of espace TRAMES ;
- Olivia Marsaud, curator;
- El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, curator;
- Selly Raby Kane, designer and filmmaker.
Artists and craftsmen whose work is presented: Khadija Ba x Goossens; Ousmane Bâ; Aristide x Lesage; Diane Cescutti; Souleymane Bachir Diaw x Ibrahima Kewe Ndome; Binta Diaw; Linda Dounia; Yacob (Yankhoba Fall); Pauline Guerrier; Les artisans des Maisons Lesage et Atelier Montex; Yassine Mekhnache; Bibi Seck x Manufactures sénégalaises des arts décoratifs de Thiès (MSADT); Habib Sembene.
Entitled “Sunu diggante” [what binds us together], the group show brings together the work of some fifteen craftsmen and artists, mostly Senegalese and a few French, of all generations and backgrounds. They celebrate living together by asserting the collective dimension of their works: their productions call on communities of expert craftsmen or jack-of-all-trades accomplices. The exhibition is thus conceived in the manner of a vast patchwork, an age-old technique, particularly representative of the Baye Fall community, which enables heterogeneous pieces of fabric to be assembled to create a larger, more singular piece.
Borrowed from collections or produced especially for the event, works in all media invite visitors to experience immersive propositions between the real and the virtual, the material and the conceptual, the artisanal and the mechanical. They break down frameworks and hierarchies, combine practices that are a priori distant, explore atypical materials such as synthetic wicks, divert scraps of leather, transform plastic into weaving material, and restore nobility to discarded materials.
