Khadim Bamba

PROFILE-STUDIES :Khadim GUEYE in the civil status known as Khadim Bamba, name of visual artist was born in 1991 inDiourbel, Senegal. Of Senegalese nationality, he lives and works in Dakar, precisely at Guédiawaye Hamo 6, where he grew up.After his studies from primary to terminale, in 2013 he passed the entrance examination to the School Nationale des Arts Senegal (ENA) for training in plastic arts. In 2017 he obtainedhis National Diploma of Fine Arts (DNBA) by being a major with honors in the visual communication-graphic designer sector.A committed and multidisciplinary visual artist, he is a member and manager of the associationartistic international Young Artists of the Future (JAA).ARTISTIC APPROACH :Inspired by her mother who is a seamstress and by her grandfather Papa Ibra TALL, a licier artistforerunner of art in Senegal, he decided to work on textiles as a medium.Through an assemblage of fabrics, textiles, paint and sewing, Khadim Bamba presents characters who merge and dissolve in a decor of textiles whose functions traditional ones have been redesigned. Anonymous, these stylized figures appear as archetypes of a pan-African culture and question the malleable relationship of each to the identity cultural. He cuts, glues, assembles and paints figures with shapes inspired by codes clothing, accessories and symbols of various religious and ethnic groups in West Africa, as well as pop music, fashion and African studio photography.Khadim Bamba creates works that question cultural identity and evoke the interrelation betweencultures, traditions and modernity.EXHIBITIONS:Khadim Bamba's work was included in a double exhibition during the Dak'Art Biennalewith a Spanish foundation Ankaria in 2022 at the Boribana Dakar Museum and Hotel Siki Saint Louis,In a collective exhibition at the Selebe Yoon gallery in 2022 in Dakar,In a two-person exhibition at the French Institute of Saint Louis in Senegal in 2021,"Let's Talk about Art" with Urban Africa, Bamako, Mali (2021),“What about you?” organized by Urban Africans at Cbk Zuidoost, Amsterdam, Holland (2020);Artistic residency by Ankaria Foundation, Madrid, Spain (2020);6th edition International Festival of Digital Cinema of Cotonou (FICNC), Cotonou, Benin (2019);10th National Visual Arts Fair of Senegal, "Seentu or waiting" at the Blaise Cultural CenterSenghor, Dakar, Senegal (2019);8th edition of the "African Festival of Virtual and Artistic Images" (FAIVA) in Bamako, Mali (2019);"SISOOAGA" organized in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2018),Three collective exhibitions in Off during the Biennial of Dak'ART 2018,Salon international d’Art Arbustes, Mantes la jolie, France in 2017, 2018 for which he received the artist prize revelation in 2017.He was also nominated for the Kuenyehia Art Prize (Accra, Ghana) in 2020 in the Top 12 of best young African artists, he was a Top 5 finalist for the Ellipse Art Project, (Paris, France) in 2021.He has participated in artist residencies in Madrid, Bamako, Ouagadougou and Dakar. So his workis exhibited in Senegal, Burkina Faso, France, the Netherlands, Mali, Benin, Spain.His work is part of the Ankaria Foundation collection (Spain), Frances Cobi Collection (Italy),Jom Collection (Senegal), Center Cbk Zuidoost (Netherlands).