Women artists in Senegal from the 1950s today

Research in progress by curator Anne Bourrassé - February 2023

After a first stay in Dakar in April 2021, Anne Bourrassé curator and independent art critic, was invited for a one-month residency at Selebe Yoon. During her residency supported by the Institut Français, Sénégal, she developed a research on the place of artists identified as women in the Senegalese contemporary art scene through meetings with artists, cultural actors of the territory (mainly in Dakar), a work of documentation and exchanges with the structure. Who are they? What place does it occupy on the Senegalese artistic scene? What artistic discourse and mediums do they carry? Is there gender-based discrimination against Senegalese artists? And if so, why and what are the obstacles to the development of these careers?

The research is currently available for review in our library.

About the curator

Anne Bourrassé

Anne Bourrassé (born in 1991, lives and works in Paris) is an independent curator and writer that works at the intersection of the visual arts and the humanities. She defines new exhibition formats of exhibitions conceived as experiences, frameworks for encounters and exchanges. Concerned by current societal issues, she defends a committed and inclusive approach to curating exhibitions. She is currently an independent curator and author, as well as a lecturer and artistic director of the Consulat Voltaire in Paris and of the of the Artists' Residency “La Folie Barbizon” (77). In 2019, she co-founded the association “Contemporaines” to fight against gender inequalities in contemporary art. She taught at the Sciences Po Paris research center in 2017. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Sciences Po Paris and studied at Cornell University, USA.