Casamançan - Senegal (No reserve price)

Senegalese woman sculptor.

Seni Awa Camara is among those artists who were introduced to the African contemporary art scene in 1989 by the exhibition Magiciens de la terre, and whose works were acquired and disseminated by Jean Pigozzi in the wake of the exhibition.

Like several others showcased in 1989, S. A. Camara did not initially intend her work for the international art market and confined it rather to a local market: that of the Casamance village of her birth, Bignona. If she still resides there, S. A. Camara now exports her sculptures around the world.

Oscillating between craft and naïve art, her creations spring straight from the artist’s imagination, without the artist necessarily justifying their origins, meaning, or possible interpretations. Taking the form of strange creatures, sometimes two-headed, often built from a common trunk on which emerge multiple bodies of children or animals, her sculptures evoke scenes of motherhood, draw on the Casamance natural world, as well as a broad bestiary.