In Situ / Vox Ouezzin, Cheikh Ndiaye: Dakar, Sénégal

In Cheikh Ndiaye's paintings, the framing is tight, deliberately fragmented: a parcel of land corresponds to a parcel of canvas. The territories delimited by the artist are at the same time physical, historical, symbolic and plastic. They have the particularity of carrying significant architectures. Cinema in particular, this specular device that says as much about the society to which it belongs through the images it shows as through the way it is conceived, is at the centre of the artist's thinking. Cheikh Ndiaye is particularly interested in those that flourished in West Africa during and after the Independences. Their modernist style then contrasted with colonial architecture and placed them at the forefront of modernity, linking Africa to an international visual culture.

Cheikh Ndiaye subjects each of these significant architectures to his scrutinizing eye. He methodically deconstructs their strata and carries out a quasi-archeological analysis in search of traces of history to be documented and what they tell us about the evolution of the contemporary.