Mozambique’s Eurídice Kala takes part in the Dakar Biennalle

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Mozambique’s Eurídice Kala takes part in the Dakar Biennalle

3:39 CAT | 07 May 2016

Folha de Maputo ( File photo) / Eurídice Kala

Mozambican Euridice Getulio Kala, Angolan Délio Jasse and Portuguese Mónica Miranda are among the 70 artists participating in the Contemporary African Art Biennial of Dakar, which runs until June 3rd.

At the opening ceremony of Dak’Art on Tuesday, President Macky Sall of Senegal announced that the annual subsidy for the biennial, currently at 300 million Central Africans francs (EUR457,000) would rise to 500 million (EUR762,000 ).

Sixty-six artists from 24 countries were selected to participate in the international exhibition dubbed “re-enchantment”, a designation “closely linked to the overall theme of the biennial, which invites artists and all Africans to invent new forms of re-enchant the world and the continent,” according to the biennial website.

Other artists participating are Tunisian Mouna Karray (photography), Senegalese Henri Sagna (installation), Ghanaian Nana Poku (sculpture) and Wash Munroe (sculpture) from the Bahamas, as well as artists from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Morocco, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa, Malawi, France, Madagascar and Algeria.

Initiatives beyond the official program should allow about 280 artists to present their works in Dakar, Saint-Louis and other Senegalese cities.

Malian Igo Lassana Diarra, founder of Bamako Médina gallery told Agence France Presse: “We are supporing the initiative because it is a great pan-African celebration. It is a duty and an obligation to come and see contemporary African creation.”

According to the Belgian collector Charles Adriaenssen, “African art is very alive, it is still very close to its roots, its folklore, its ‘pains of soul’. People have good reason to come, because here is an art that is strong and original,” he says.

Source: Lusa