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Apocalypse Now: Group Exhibition

Past exhibition
25 January - 1 March 2024
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Seni Awa Camara, Double Figure, 2021
Seni Awa Camara, Double Figure, 2021
Seni Awa Camara, Double Figure, 2021
Seni Awa Camara, Double Figure, 2021

Seni Awa Camara

Double Figure, 2021
Terracotta
140 cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Paolo Colombo, Untitled (Grey), 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Paolo Colombo, Untitled (Grey), 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Paolo Colombo, Untitled (Grey), 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Paolo Colombo, Untitled (Grey), 2019
Seni Awa Camara (b. c.1945, Bignona, Senegal) belongs to a group of artists who were introduced to the African contemporary art scene in 1989 with the exhibition Magiciens de la terre (Magicians...
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Seni Awa Camara (b. c.1945, Bignona, Senegal) belongs to a group of artists who were introduced to the African contemporary art scene in 1989 with the exhibition Magiciens de la terre (Magicians of the Earth) whose works were acquired and distributed by Jean Pigozzi after the exhibition. Like several other artists exhibited in 1989, Awa Camara had no international plans for her work, rather choosing to restrict her production to the local market of Bignona, the Casamancian village where she was born. While she still lives there, Awa Camara now exports her sculptures worldwide.

Awa Camara’s creations are a pure product of her imagination, for which she feels no need to justify origins, meanings or possible interpretations. Sculpted in the shape of strange, sometimes two-headed creatures, often from a single trunk and carrying multiple bodies of children or animals, her sculptures evoke maternity scenes and draw from the natural environment of the Casamance region and from a diverse bestiary. Awa Camara learnt sculpture from her mother and grandmother; she models her figures and bakes them at low temperature in an open-air oven in her yard. This rudimentary technique enables her to give life to the extraordinary visions she now exhibits.
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Artist's Studio, Senegal
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