Sculpture - Senegal (No reserve price)

A Senegalese sculptor from Bignona in Casamance. From a lineage of potters, she learned in childhood to work clay according to ancient traditions. But very quickly, she emancipates herself from utilitarian pottery to develop a singular body of work, at the crossroads of the sacred, the mystic, and the dreamlike. Seyni Awa Camara shapes powerful figures, often feminine, at once human, animal, and spiritual. Her hybrid creatures, with archaic and monumental forms, seem to emerge from an ancient world, between dream and reality.

Self-taught, she forged a unique sculptural language, nourished by myths, animist beliefs, fertility rituals, and orally transmitted narratives. She works without sketches or models, directly with her hands, in an instinctive and almost mystical relationship to the earth. Her sculptures, fired in open-air bonfires, bear the marks of a raw roughness and a troubling expressiveness.

Recognized as early as the 1980s by institutions and collectors in Africa and Europe, Seyni Awa Camara remained steadfastly attached to her village, from which she never wished to move away. Today, her work is hailed as one of the most important on the African contemporary scene. She embodies a rare voice, deeply rooted in African spirituality, yet universal in its artistic reach.