It's a place where the teenage girls and women of Dakar go to fill out their wardrobes and buy sensual items. It's an integral part of the Sandaga market, even though it's physically separated from it by the road. Her mother used to sell there, as do so many other women who still do. Each time he visits this special place, he feels as if time has stood still. Memories of his childhood come flooding back... His intention for “Dem Dikk Via Via” is to work on a series of 4 mixed-media pieces using rice sacks and the background fabrics that have been one of his artistic signatures since his renowned “Ndewendeul” series. To this will be added a production process using his mother's abstract portraits. The idea here is to show how, in Senegal, problems are postponed, their management postponed, ignoring their critical and otherwise important nature. Such as the central square of the Sandaga market, whose reconstruction deserves to be speeded up. This would be a tribute to his beloved mother. For its resilience, comparable to that of this market, which for almost a century has served and enlivened the inhabitants of the vibrant city of Dakar.

Written and Curated by Mohamed A. Cisse