Soly Cissé & Seyni Awa Camara: Ancestral Metamorphosis

Black Liquid Art Gallery is presenting the exhibition Ancestral Metamorphosis: Soly Cissé and Seyni Awa Camara, which will open Saturday, Dec. 14, at 5:30 p.m. at the venue on Via Piemonte, 69 in Rome. The exhibition explores the human condition through a fascinating dialogue between myth and contemporaneity, relating the works of Soly Cissé and Seyni Awa Camara, two of the most relevant Senegalese artists on the contemporary art scene.

Cissé and Camara, with distinct languages and materials, share a profound reflection on the transformations of the human being and the link between the human and the wild. Soly Cissé’s hybrid and dreamlike creatures, made with a painting dense with symbolic meanings and chromatic tensions, find a counterpoint in Seyni Awa Camara’s clay sculptures, which celebrate resilience, fertility and dialogue with the spiritual world. Their works, laden with symbolism, dissolve the boundaries between reality and imagination, natural and supernatural, transporting the viewer on a journey through past, present and future.

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Senegal in Rome, aims to offer the public an immersive experience that invites reflection on identity, metamorphosis and the universal meaning of being human. Soly Cissé’s works, influenced by masters such as Bacon and Basquiat, move between African myth and contemporary expressionism, evoking tensions between instinct and reason. At the same time, Seyni Awa Camara’s dense sculptures evoke ritual and primordial art, shaping symbolic figures that connect the individual to the transcendent.

Opening hours: Tuesday through Saturday from 12 noon to 7 p.m. From Dec. 23 to Jan. 6, the gallery will be closed for the holiday season.

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