Casamançan - Senegal (No reserve price)

Senegalese female sculptor.

Seni Awa Camara is among the artists 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 shown in 1989, S. A. Camara did not initially intend her production for the international art market and instead confined it to a local market: that of the Casamance village where she was born, Bignona. If she still lives there, S. A. Camara today exports her sculptures around the world.

Oscillating between craft and naive art, her creations spring straight from the artist’s imagination, and she does not, moreover, justify their origins, meanings, or possible interpretations. Taking the form of strange creatures, sometimes two-headed, often built from a common 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.