Senegal 2024
The project presents a selection of paintings together forming a four-by-twelve-meter puzzle-like display calling to unite and cultivate bonds.
Title: Bokk – Bounds
Commissioner: Marième Ba
Curator: Massamba Mbaye
Artist: Alioune Diagne
Diagne developed a unique painting technique to depict daily life scenes in Senegal and the major challenges the world is facing, from ecology to gender equality, racism, and the notions of transmission and heritage.
The project presents a selection of paintings together forming a four-by-twelve-meter puzzle-like display calling to unite and cultivate bonds by connecting through universal challenges and values.
Diagne brought to the center of the piece a traditional canoe wrapped in a Senegalese-made textile painted by the artist, thus echoing humankind’s history marked by major migration waves, responsible for a growing separation from each other and foreshadowing climate change’s future migratory phenomena.
VENUE:
Arsenale
OPENING TIMES:
Apr 20 – Sept 30 Tue – Sun, 11am – 7pm
Sept 30 – Nov 24 Tue – Sun, 10am – 6pm
ADDRESS
Arsenale, Castello, 30122, Venice, Italy
