Mabeye Deme - Wallbeuti

MABEYE DEME
Born in 1979 in Tokyo. He lives and works between France and Senegal. The daily life of the city of Dakar is magnified, transcended by the photographer's lens, who, placed behind his tent canvas, manages to capture intimate moments of its inhabitants.
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On the contrary to the painter who imprints his motif on the canvas, the photographer veils the lens to better unveil his subject. Clean canvas, blurred figure. Mabeye Deme uses the sensitive texture of the veil as a means, as with the developer of film or the pixels of digital imagery.

The tents in which he finds himself are ephemeral constructions of the popular neighborhoods that host ceremonies and meetings of all kinds. The wear-and-tear tells of the passing time, the ruptures and the exile's distance from a city that always eludes its present.

Invited to a residency at the Blachère Foundation for African Contemporary Art in Apt (France) in 2013, his work was subsequently shown at the Dak'Art Off biennial in Senegal in 2014 and then at UNESCO in Paris in 2016. He was also exhibited in Marseille, Auxerre, Lyon and Grenoble.