Galerie Cécile Fakhoury is pleased to present 12 December 2020 to 6 March 2021, "Comme la jungle, la mer," a new solo exhibition of the Senegalese artist Kassou Seydou.

 

Born in 1971 in Zinguinchor, Senegal. The artist lives and works in Keur Massar, Senegal.

 

From Dakar to Abidjan, the artist takes us on a visual and poetic odyssey along this journey.

 

On 26 September 2002, the boat the Joola, which links the port of Zinguinchor in Casamance, Senegal, home of Kassou Seydou, to the port of Dakar, was shipwrecked.

 

Of the human drama that still marks the consciousness of several Senegalese generations, one question remains: what still drives us to travel?

 

From a chosen journey to one that is imposed on us, Kassou Seydou depicts through imposing frescoes the meanders of spiritual and physical journeys.

 

Always sensitive to the social issues that affect his country and the world as a whole, Kassou Seydou invites us to question our prism of perception and to embrace, in a generous and human gesture, the complex relationship between the construction of identity and otherness.