ADAMA BOYE

Along with the late Djamilatou Bikami, she is one of the most active artists in Senegal. Building technician, planner, and visual artist, she is inspired by experienced artists, in particular women like Younousse Seye. The series entitled Same liniou moom, or preserving what is ours, invites us to preserve our identity while magnifying the courage and dynamism of African women. Same liniou moom is also a tribute to the women of Nder.

Adama Boye's work is a hymn to the preservation of an African cultural identity. Its realization uses very symbolic materials. The use of animal skin gives a mystical and very festive aspect to her work. Whether in the making of amulets or the production of rhythm instruments, the skin is always put to use.

The presence of the handwoven cloth which, in Africa, welcomes the newborn and accompanies the deceased to his last resting place, and which in fact has a particular meaning, completes the work. A whole section of Senegalese and African culture is visited in the work of Adama Boye “We Africans are very conservative. Our ancestors did everything to preserve cultural and social relations. I am a traditionalist and care about our culture,” she tells us. On the canvas, on the skin, on the cloth or on any other support, by painting or collage, she recalls the past and the mystery of Africa and spins the orange and red metaphor of a beautiful, sociable and warm. 

These works are a quest for the links between the past, the present and the future.

Her artistic creation lends itself to be seen and appreciated as a hymn of harmony and appeal to reason, for the preservation of African cultural identity, the defense of the environment, the need to basic education with a view to taking root in our own traditional values, but also the need for open-mindedness to other fruitful values, progress and sustainable development.