Arriving in Paris: Meditations on motherhood by Senegalese sculptor Seyni Awa Camara
Arriving at Paris+ par Art Basel are two terracotta sculptures by the Senegalese artist Seyni Awa Camara. The Wolof artist was born in the 1940s, one of three triplets β a mythic origin that evokes the interplay between the visible and invisible worlds in African cosmogony. She was raised by her mother, a potter, who taught Camara about sculpture as a child. To this day, Camara models her clay in front of her home and fires the work in an open-hearth kiln. An inner calling guides her work: many pieces reflect a world of animals and humans, or as seen here, maternal figures surrounded by children.β―
Seyni Awa Camara, Untitled (2019) and Untitled (2023), are presented by Magnin-A (Paris).
Produced and directed by Prismago
_Les mΓ©ditations sur la maternitΓ© de la sculptrice sΓ©nΓ©galaise Seyni Awa Camara
Deux sculptures en terre cuite de lβartiste sΓ©nΓ©galaise Seyni Awa Camara arrivent Γ Paris+ par Art Basel. Lβartiste wolof est nΓ©e dans les annΓ©es 1940, lβune de triplΓ©es ββ―une origine mythique qui Γ©voque lβinteraction entre les mondes visibles et invisibles dans la cosmogonie africaine. Elle a Γ©tΓ© Γ©levΓ©e par sa mΓ¨re, potiΓ¨re, qui lui a enseignΓ© la sculpture dΓ¨s lβenfance. Aujourdβhui encore, Seyni Awa Camara modΓ¨le lβargile devant sa maison et cuit ses Εuvres dans un four Γ ciel ouvert. Un appel intΓ©rieur guide son travailβ―: de nombreuses piΓ¨ces dΓ©peignent un monde dβanimaux et dβhumains ou, comme ici, des figures maternelles entourΓ©es dβenfants.
Seyni Awa Camara, Sans titre (2019) et Sans titre (2023) sont prΓ©sentΓ©es par Magnin-A (Paris).
VidΓ©o produite et rΓ©alisΓ©e par Prismago._
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