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Stevenson is pleased to present Call Me When You Get There, Mame-Diarra Niang's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the presentation of 52 intimate works, Niang presents a wandering of the mind, in the frame of her long-term preoccupation with the plasticity of territory.
The series emerged during lockdown isolation, from a desire to exercise freedom of movement and to overcome psychological and physical boundaries with the support of technology.
The territory as a constantly evolving and shifting entity is at the root of Niang’s work. In Call Me When You Get There the artist returns to the practice of map-making as a way to situate the self and create new paths of memory and awareness. The everyday scenes are presented as elements of a puzzle in a ‘third dimension’, with duplicated figures melting into distorted backgrounds, architectural structures stretched beyond form, and cars flattened and misshapen. The exploration is virtual in its modalities but nonetheless very real in the impact it produces. -
Report from the interior
You know, I always get lost in myself, and then I find myself again.
How can we lose sight of ourselves when we are motionless, compartmentalised within our own bodies, confined?
From where I am I can no longer see the horizon. I have no perspective.
The memory of my freedoms is painful.
Tomorrow no longer exists; tomorrow, like yesterday, still looks like today, and I must expand my territory.
I want to expand my territory, but all I have here are all kinds of emotions and my memory.Invisible and intimate elements are suggestions of metamorphosis.
I turn around ... they turn me to stone … painful shifts and inner rollercoasters.
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Mame-Diarra Niang: Call Me When You Get There
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