Fashion 2112 raises questions about criteria of beauty. What will “attractiveness” look like in the future? Once the predicted disappearance of certain commodities in our consumerist world actually occurs, what…
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This is the story of a road known as Route GP1. It runs along the coast from Tunis to the Libyan border, its asphalt strip following the ancient Roman roads…
The hegemonic cultural power of modern-day capitalism comes through as a major theme in our early work. Halaal Art as a body of work deals with the role and place…
Bamako is hot. Very hot. 70° mornings seem almost cool compared to the scorching 95° days. All the more so because the sandstorms, light though they may be, pollute the…
This video is a series of photographs shot in continuous mode and edited later on, before adding conceptual sound. We are here but not here. Where things are not in…
Christian Caujolle : How does the Managing Director operate at the Rencontres of Bamako? Samuel Sidibé : The General Manager is in many ways the General Director of the Biennale. He…
In my latest video piece, Black Brain, I deal with the misuse of the natural resources that belong to all of humanity. I question the unequal economic relationship between North…
In November 1998, the government demolished the colonial abattoir in Accra. It was declared an environmental hazard since it stood close to the place where all of Accra’s faecal matter…
Nigeria has huge resources, but two of these stand out: a population of 140 million people and a vast crude oil deposit, located in the deep waters of the Delta,…
This series focuses on the ravaged tons of wood transported on waterways to the sawmill by the river banks, the third mainland bridge, in Lagos, leaving the environment untidy and…