Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to present its first off-site programme as part of the 14th edition of Partcours. In collaboration with Hôtel Sokhamon — an emblematic Dakar landmark whose interior architecture is the result of an artistic vision — the gallery unveils What the Sea Whispers, a solo exhibition by Rachel Marsil.
Drawing on the history and singular aesthetic of the Sokhamon, originally built as a maternity hospital and spiritual site, Rachel Marsil composes a visual odyssey inspired by the universe of Drexciya, the Detroit-based electronic music duo. In the late 1990s, they imagined an underwater world inhabited by the children of pregnant Black women who were thrown overboard during the transatlantic crossings of the slave trade.
Under the artist’s brush emerge, interwoven with the organic forms of the hotel, the inhabitants of a Black Atlantis — a site for a renewed narrative of the Atlantic and its place within the history of slavery.
Adress: Hotel Sokhamon, MH75+F3F, Av. Nelson Mandela, Dakar, Sénégal
