INTIMITÉ TERANGA

With Works by Sandiry Niang (Senegal)

and Doff (Chad)

INTIMITÉ TERANGA

What is intimacy ? individualism ? private sphere ? breaking the stereotypes of the african continent often makes us understand our own "western lives" much better..

"Intimité Teranga" shows artworks by the Senegalese artist Sandiry Niang and the Chadian artist Doff.

Doff is the leading contemporary artist of Chad. His "Upcycling Art" engages in the recycling and uplifting of materials who have a negative history (Trash, used bullet and other used war materials). He turns them into strong positive pieces of Art as if he wanted to redeem fromall the sins attached to their memories. He creates an image of Hope for the whole African Continent.
Sandiry Niang is an expressive painter from West Africa, with a strong imagery. He grew up in a family of plenty in a narrow house with a narrow opportunity of unfolding. He was litteraly raised in a few rooms house with so many siblings, that he felt "observed" his whole childhood and it was only with the age of 7-8 that he discovered, what "privacy" and "individualism" meant. In answer to that, we "western civilisation" get born into, as he points it out "an architecture that promotes individualism from the moment of birth on, when we get our own sleepingroom". Later though... as we unfold in our self-fullfilment... isn't it in the western strongly technologized world, that we apparently live in complete freedom althoug secretly the algorithms, the government, the social pressure is watching us all the time? in every painting we can find 3 little observers in the top left corner.

«Teranga» is Wolof (Westafrican language) and means «hospitality». Senegal is said to be the "land of the Teranga" – The exhibition examins the tension between voluntary high social exchange (hospitality) and the absence of intimacy with forced social exchange (growing up in large families in a small space).

June 1st - October 15

🥂Vernissage: Fr. June 23rd 18.00

& Sat. June 24th 18.00

📍 Château Papillon des Arts de St.Moritz, Ground Floor

>>> Can you find "The Three Observers <<<

in every painting ?

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