Ancestral Metamorphosis: Soly Cissé and Seyni Awa Camara

The exhibition Ancestral Metamorphosis explores the human condition through a lens that fuses myth and contemporaneity, placing the works of Soly Cissé and Seyni Awa Camara in dialogue. These two Senegalese artists, with different languages and mediums, share a profound reflection on the transformations of being and the link between the human and the savage. Their works take us back to an ancestral past, while evoking a future in the making, in which the boundary between reality and imagination, human and monstrous, natural and supernatural dissolves.

Cissé's hybrid, dreamlike creatures find a counterpoint in Camara's sculptural figures, dense with symbolism and charged with an archaic power that celebrates life, resilience and dialogue with the spiritual world. 

Both artists use the concept of metamorphosis as a tool to question the identity and meaning of the human being, transforming their materials - painting and clay - into vehicles to tell universal stories.