Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to present Et je renais à la terre qui fut ma mère [And I was reborn to the land that was my mother], an exhibition by Senegalese artist Souleymane Keïta (1947 - 2014) conceived in close collaboration with the Collection Jom - Dakar.
Et je renais à la terre qui fut ma mère borrows its title from a poem by Léopold Sédar Senghor whom the artist loved to read. The exhibition is an invitation to immerse oneself in Souleymane Keïta's particular universe and to (re)discover, through the prism of painting, his atypical career, which began a decade after Senegal's independence and was marked by several aesthetic periods that can be read as the artist's responses to the issues of his time. Ten years after his death, the poetic scope of Souleymane Keïta's work still resonates strongly today, as it embodies a singular facet of the so-called Senegalese moderns (1960 - 1980).
