Casamançais - Senegal (No reserve price)

In the style of Seni Awa Camara

Seni Awa Camara is one of those artists who were introduced to the contemporary African art scene in 1989 by the exhibition Magicians of the Earth and whose works were acquired and circulated by Jean Pigozzi in the wake of the show. Like several other artists exhibited in 1989, S. A. Camara did not initially intend her production for the international art market and instead confined it to a local market: the Casamance village of her birth, Bignona. If she still resides there, S. A. Camara now exports her sculptures around the world. Hovering between craftsmanship and naive art, her creations spring straight from the artist’s imagination, without the artist ever justifying their origins, meanings, or possible interpretations. Taking the form of strange creatures, sometimes two-headed, often built from a common trunk from which emerge multiple bodies of children or animals, her sculptures evoke scenes of motherhood, draw on the Casamance natural world, as well as on a broad zoological repertoire.