Casamançan - Senegal (No reserve price)

Senegalese sculptor.

Seni Awa Camara is among those artists introduced to the scene of African contemporary art in 1989 by the exhibition Magiciens de la terre, and whose works were acquired and disseminated by Jean Pigozzi in the wake of the show. As with several other artists exhibited in 1989, S. A. Camara did not initially intend her work for the international art market and kept it mainly to a local market: that of her birthplace, the Casamancian village of Bignona. If she still lives there, S. A. Camara now exports her sculptures around the world.

Oscillating between craft and naive art, her creations spring straight from the artist’s imagination, without her necessarily justifying their origins, meaning, or possible interpretations. Taking the form of strange creatures, sometimes bicéphalous, often built from a common trunk on which appear multiple bodies of children or animals, her sculptures evoke scenes of maternity, draw on the Casamancian natural world, as well as on a broad animal world.