23 May - 22 July 2023
Dérives en péninsule
Younes Baba-Ali
Mbaye Diop
Hamedine Kane
Naomi Lulendo
Dérives en péninsule
Selebe Yoon is pleased to present "Dérives en péninsule" (Peninsula Drift) a group exhibition at Galerie L’Atlas in Paris with the artists Younes Baba-Ali (b. 1986, Morocco), Mbaye Diop (b. 1981, Senegal), Hamedine Kane (b.1983, Mauritania) and Naomi Lulendo (b.1994, France).
Drift is synonymous with deviation, geographical, urban or transcontinental movements. Between random wanderings or trajectories forced by necessity, it can become a way of living for some. This exhibition, "Dérives en péninsule" presents the work of four artists whose works bear witness to the effects of displacement linked to political, social and urban conditions. These crossings renegotiate the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces, architectures of grandeur and those of survival, the African continent and Europe. While the practice of these artists is inscribed in the Dakar peninsula, it is also defined in its relationship to other territories to which the artists are linked.
Supported by the Emerige Group, L’Atlas is an exhibition space in the heart of the new nighborhood La Félicité, which proposes to invite foreign galleries to present one or more artists from international contemporary scenes.
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Artists Bio
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Younes Baba-Ali (b. 1986,Oujda, Morocco) lives and works in Brussels & Dakar. He graduated from l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2008 and from l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2011.
He was rewarded by the “Léopold Sédar Senghor” prize at the Dakar Biennale, Senegal in 2012 and the “Boghossian” prize during the Belgian “Art’Contest” in Brussels, Belgium in 2014.
He had several solo exhibitions such as “Dégrisements”, La BF15, Lyon, France (2021); “Vu’Cumprà / Paraboles”, Bozar, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium (2016); and “Brussels Background”, curated by Hicham Khalidi, MAAC, Brussels, BE (2014), amongst others.
He has participated in several international exhibitions namely at Centre Wallonie- Bruxelles, Paris, FR (2021); Lubumbashi Biennale, Congo RDC (2019); MACAAL, Marrakech, MA (2019); ZKM, Karlsruhe, GER (2018); The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, RU (2018); KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE (2018); DOCUMENTA 14 Radio Program, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, GER (2017); MuCEM, Marseille, FR (2015); Dakar Biennale, SN (2012); Marrakech Biennial, MA (2012); just to name a few.
He also had several residencies, namely at Pioneer Works, New York, USA (2023); “Digital Imaginaries”, Research Residency, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, SA (2018); Moussem, Nomadic Arts Center, Brussels, Belgium, BE(2016); MAAC, Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux, Brussels, BE (2014); Pas de deux, Villa Romana, Florence, IT (2013); Vive voix, Dakar, SN (2013), etc.
Younes Baba-Ali’s work is part of different collections, both private and public, such as Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels in Belgium; Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium; Middelheim, Antwerp in Belgium; FRAC PACA, Marseille, France; M Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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Mbaye Diop is a multidisciplinary Senegalese artist born in 1981 in Richard-Toll, in the north of Senegal. In 2010, he graduated from the National School of Arts in Dakar and taught visual arts in the city of Saint-Louis until 2019. He now lives and works in Switzerland and graduated in a master's degree in contemporary art practices at HEAD Geneva (Haute école d'art et de design) (2022).
In 2023, he was nominated for the Norval Foundation Prize in Cape Town, South Africa (2023) and thus participates in the finalists exhibition. In 2022, he received the UEMOA prize for a multimedia installation “De l’arbre à palabre à l’arbre numérique” at the Dakar Biennale curated by El Hadji Malick Ndiaye.
Mbaye Diop had the following solo exhibitions: “Balle de Match”, Selebe Yoon, Dakar, SN (2023); "Autour du poisson" Galerie Skopia, Geneva, SW (2019); Chaussures Usées", Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor, Dakar, SN (2019); "Introspection", Institut Français, Saint Louis, SN (2018).
His work was also featured in group exhibitions: “Color Line”, as part of the Printemps Culturels at Quartier Général – Centre d’art contemporain de La Chaux-de-Fonds, SW (2023); ”Bande-Annonce: La collection Pigozzi à Cannes", Cannes, FR(2022); Geneva Biennale - Sculpture Garden, SW (2022); La Becque, Tour-de-Peilz, SW (2020); Espace eeeh! Nyon, SW (2020); Théâtre de l'Orangerie, Geneva, SW (2018); amongst others.
He participated in several festivals with his performances and animated films namely “Ecrans urbains” (2023) and “Apprendre de Dakar” (2022) organized by F’AR - Forum d’Architectures Lausanne, SW. He had several artist books publications with Editions Ripopée.
His work is in the following collections: Collection Pigozzi - Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC), Switzerland; JOM Collection, Senegal; Ville de Nyon, Switzerland, amongst others.
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The Senegalese-Mauritanian artist and director Hamedine Kane (born in 1983 in Mauritania) lives and works between Brussels, Paris and Dakar. Trained as a librarian in Nouakchott, he made his first trip to Europe in 2004 after obtaining a scholarship as a librarian in Paris. Shortly after, he decided to base himself in Brussels where he developed his practice that integrates literature, art and cinema.
Hamedine Kane has participated in numerous festivals, biennials and exhibitions in Senegal, France and internationally such as Les Rencontres de Bamako, (2022); Momenta Biennale, Montreal, Canada, (2021); Musée de l’Histoire de l’Immigration of Immigration, Paris, France (2021); MACAAL Museum, Marrakech, Morocco (2021); Casablanca Biennial, Morocco (2021); La Biennale de Lubumbashi VI, Congo, (2019); Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany (2017).
He had two solo exhibitions: « Inhabitable | Re-imaginer les devenirs », Pointculture, Brussels, Belgium, curated by Aude Tournaye (2019-2020) and et «Salesman of the revolt», Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India (2018).
In 2018, he co-initiated with Stéphane Verlet-Bottero, "The School of Mutants" a collaborative art and research platform that was presented in numerous biennials and institutions including at the Dakar Biennale (2022); Berlin Biennale, Germany (2022); Taipei Biennale, Taiwan (2020); "UFA-Universities of African Futures", Lieu Unique, Nantes, France (2020); Architecture Triennial, Oslo, Norway (2019) to name a few.
As a filmmaker, his film "The Blue House" has been screened at numerous festivals and is the winner of OpenCity Film documentary, London; Biografilm Festival, Bologna; Millennium Documentary Festival, Brussels; RIDM, Montreal. His film The Blue House received a special jury mention at the IDFA in Amsterdam in 2020.
Hamedine Kane is a resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome (2023-2024) where he will pursue a research project on "Three Americans in Paris". This project takes as its starting point a part of the life and work of three great black American writers who went into exile in Paris in the mid-1940s, Richard Wright, Chester Himes and James Baldwin, and puts into perspective the notion of literary heritage as a source of contemporary inspiration. He has also done other residencies including at the Cité des Arts in Paris (2022), Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India (2018); Centre d'Ecritures Cinématographiques, Moulin Andé, Normandy, France (2018); Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France (2016) and Kawkaw Residence, le 18, Marrakech, Morocco (2016).
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Naomi Lulendo (b.1994, France) is a French-Guadeloupean-Congolese artist based in Dakar, Senegal. She holds an MFA degree from the Beaux-Arts School of Paris (2018), with Pascale Marthine Tayou as her mentor.
She had two solo exhibitions: “Bleu Miroir” at Agences Trames in Dakar (2021); “Faites vos Je” at the Beaux-Arts, Paris (2018).
In 2023, she presented the performance “Archi(s)pell” at the Le Frac Reims, in France as part of the FAR AWAY Festival (2023).
Other public performances include ones at Bétonsalon, Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, France (2020); Raw Material Company, Dakar, Senegal (2018); Galerie Allen (2019).
Her work was included in several group exhibitions: “D’ailleurs je viens d’ici” curated by Sandrine Honliasso and Ariane Leblanc, at Comédie de Caen, Normandie, France (2021); “On fait des dessins dans la terre” curated by Eva Barois de Caevel, Galerie 31Project, Paris (2021); “L’heure rouge” , 14th Dakar Biennale OFF, Galerie Le Manège, Dakar (2018); “Extrangers”, Tevere Art Gallery, Rome, Italy (2017); “Explosition”, Chapitre 2 at Galleria Continua, les Moulins, France (2016); “Transmissions, Recréation, Répétition” curated by Sarina Basta at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (2015); amongst others.
In 2021 she was among the artists selected by Zeitz MOCAA (South Africa) to join "Unfinished Camp", an ongoing international network of artists and nine art institutions on six continents, conceived and directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist and András Szánto. She was also a fellow at the Raw Academie for the fifth session, directed by artist Otobong Nkanga.