Talibé Paintings
BEGUN WITH Talibé BOYS
During a two-month artist residency at Dakar’s Village des Arts in Senegal, Sara created her Talibé Paintings – a series of pieces responding to and integrating drawings and paintings collaboratively created during workshops she ran with the talibé in Saint-Louis. Looking closely at the Talibé Triptych and the Little by Little the Bird Builds the Nest series, clues as to how and where these paintings were started can be seen.
Two of the Talibé Triptych pieces – Waaw-Waaw and Bokku – were exhibited at the Dakar Art Biennale 2022.
‘Half of the final product – a giant, stitched-together painting – now hangs on the walls of Maison de la Gare in Saint-Louis. The rest came with me on my journey through Senegal. Arriving in the studio at Village des Arts in Dakar, the process continued; more cutting up, tearing, stitching, painting over, rubbing and scratching into, gluing onto board, layering, reassembling. The process takes over, with the work of the talibé barely visible, but nonetheless a necessary start to the process of intuitive call and response. We made it together, in other words.’
Follow the links for more about Sara’s work in Senegal – Creative Voice for Senegal’s Talibé and Dakar Artist Residency.
