Ending 27th Jul, 2021 19:29

Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2021

 
  Lot 28
 
Lot 28 - Fatoumata Diabaté  (Mali 1980-)

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Fatoumata Diabaté (Mali 1980-)
Bala Na Djolo (from the L’homme en objet / L’home en animal series)

archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper

Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Edition: number 3 from an edition of 10

Estimated at R25,000 - R30,000

 

archival ink print on Hahnemühle paper

Artwork date: 2013
Signature details: accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist
Edition: number 3 from an edition of 10

(1)

image size: 30 x 45 cm ; sheet size: 42 x 59.5 cm unframed

Born in Mali, Fatoumata Diabaté’s photography career started at the Promo- Femmes Audiovisual Training Center in Bamako. In 2002, she was one of the first women to join the Bamako Photography Training Promotion Center, which aims to professionalise Malian photographers.

Diabaté has been invited to many international festivals and has received several awards, including the Africa Creation prize from the French Association of Artistic Action for her work, Touaregs, in gestures and in movements. She has participated in the Rencontres de Bamako (2005, 2009, 2011, 2019), La Gacilly Photo Festival (2017,) as well as the Voices Off festival of the Rencontres d’Arles (2018), and the Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain Dak’Art. Her work has shown in several group and solo exhibitions in Mali and internationally.

She has received several grants, including those from Blachère Foundation (2012) and the School of Fine Arts in Nancy (2014-2015). In her youth, she was Malick Sidibé’s assistant and in 2013 she designed the Street Photo Studio, a traveling photo studio which was invited to, amongst others, the Cartier Foundation in Paris (2018) and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019).

Diabaté is president of the Association of Women Photographers of Mali, was an exhibition curator at the last Rencontres de Bamako and was recently selected for the next UNESCO digital campaign among the ten women creators of West Africa, as well as the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac 2020 photographic residency. She divides her time between Montpellier (France), where she lives, and Bamako.

“The idea for this series is connected to the stories and tales I heard in my childhood and which still follow me everywhere today. These are stories designated for ‘the black child’, as Senghor put it. For these photographs, I am inspired by the stories that are in my head; I then create objects in the service of those stories. Ideas sometimes come to me at night, while I am lying in my room – before falling asleep, I sometimes dream with my eyes open. I am looking, I am always groping a little.

They are fairly simple portraits, which symbolise one aspect of a story. My use of objects as accessories or costumes for men also relates to the African masks, so well made, now preserved in museums. I leave this context of the traditional African mask, linked to specific customs and beliefs, to move towards something that is more of the order of waste. Often, I even ask the model to make this mask object himself. I, as a photographer, set up this device to place the stories that I have heard behind masks, that the young people I photograph have tinkered with recovered things.

These are stories I have never lived; these are stories I am told, stories like dreams. When we dream, we believe we are fully living something; and then when we wake up, we realise that it was not reality, and we no longer know what was deep and what was on the surface. […] these are stories like dreams, but they work as moral lessons, stories that teach us how to behave in life. Which helps us understand what lies ahead, what can happen. […] It is through stories that one can learn to gain affections towards objects, animals, trees, nature, and more.”

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Auction: Aspire X PLP | African Photography Auction 2021, ending 27th Jul, 2021

The sale, presented in partnership with the Photography Legacy Project (PLP) was the largest collection of African photography ever to come to auction.

Notable inclusions were works by Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita and young award-winning woman photographer, Lee-Ann Olwage who collaborated with Belinda Qaqamba Kafassie. Emerging photographers like Kongo Astronauts collective (DRC) and the documentary imagery of Etinosa Yvonne (Nigeria) added depth and diversity, while the older generation of established practitioners like David Goldblatt, Alf Kumalo and Ernest Cole also featured.

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