A sculptural installation dedicated to the Afro-descendant María Remedios Del Valle, considered the Captain of the Homeland, by the Argentine artist Rodrigo Díaz Ahl, was inaugurated in Dakar, Senegal, within the framework of Bienalsur, which for the first time reaches Africa with its artistic proposal.
The work, curated by Diana Wechsler, artistic director of BienaIsur, “will remain forever in the African Renaissance Monument, the tallest bronze statue in the world that rises in front of the Atlantic Ocean and the most important monument in that country, which It houses a cultural center that exhibits sculptures, paintings and objects related to the history of Africa, Senegal and the brotherhood between peoples,” reported from Bienalsur.
Like so many other Afro-descendants who built Argentina fighting in the transition from the colonial to the republican period that began with the independence wars of 1810, Del Valle became a symbol of resistance and national strength. Her claim exceeds her military conquests: through her we talk about the black Argentine identity and the struggle of women to conquer their rights, they added.
Participating in this inauguration were Habid Léon Ndiaye, secretary general of the Ministry of Culture and Communication of Senegal; the Argentine ambassador to Senegal, Marcia Levaggi; Birame Mbarou Diouf, general administrator of the African Renaissance Museum; Diana Wechsler and the Argentine artist Rodrigo Díaz Ahl.
On the other hand, the project of the Argentine artist Diego Bianchi, “Abandoned Museum”, carried out together with the community of Senegalese artists, will be inaugurated today at the Cervantes Institute in Dakar.
Bianchi worked together with the local community with the premise of using mainly those materials that the sea throws onto the city’s coasts, and the works produced will face the public without establishing greater distances; They may be vandalized, modified, complemented, or even withdrawn, in the attempt to make them a real object of discussion and consideration.
Likewise, at the Galerie Le Manège – Institut Français du Sénégal in Dakar, the exhibition “Erosioning memories” will open, which, curated by Anne Bourrassé, presents works by the Senegalese artist Linda Dounia and the Argentine Martina Echeverría.
For the first time, Bienalsur will be present in Algeria and Tunisia and will be presented again in Cameroon and Morocco where it will present works by local artists and artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Mexico and Peru.
In Morocco, on October 3, the exhibition “Between spaces and times” will open, an exhibition that includes photographic installations by 17 photographers from seven countries in America and Africa that address contemporary beings and environmental awareness from a poetic dimension.
The exhibition, where strangeness is the search engine of this proposal that proposes installing uncertainty in the viewer to think about it creatively, will take place at the National Museum of Photography, in the city of Rabat.
In November, Bienalsur will open exhibitions for the first time in Tunisia, and in Algeria, where from the 18th it will present at the National Museum of Fine Arts a work by the Argentine artist Gabriela Messina on Afro-Argentine roots; and in the city of Yaoundé, in Cameroon, it will intervene with cross residencies with the participation of local artists together with the Argentine Agustina Woodgate.
Bienalsur is a collaborative global network created at the National University of Tres de Febrero (Untref), Argentina, which, defending the singular in the diverse and the local in the global, aims to dilute distances and borders, through art and culture.
Source: Ambito
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