Casamançan - Senegal (No reserve price)

Senegalese sculptor.

Seni Awa Camara is among the artists introduced to the African contemporary art scene in 1989 by the exhibition Magiciens de la Terre, whose works were acquired and disseminated by Jean Pigozzi in the wake of the exhibition. Like many others showcased in 1989, S. A. Camara did not initially intend her output for the international art market and confined it to a local market: the Casamance village of her birth, Bignona. Although she still lives there, S. A. Camara currently exports her sculptures around the world. Oscillating between craft and naïve art, her creations spring straight from the artist's imagination, without her ever justifying their origins, meanings, or possible interpretations. Taking the form of strange creatures, sometimes two-headed, often built from a shared trunk on which multiple bodies of children or animals appear, her sculptures evoke scenes of motherhood, draw on the Casamance natural world, as well as on a broad bestiary.