anna binta diallo: PREDICTIONS
THE POLYGON
North Vancouver
July 10 - November 09, 2025
Anna Binta Diallo: Predictions - Exhibition Views, Dimensions variable, Digital collage printed on LexJet Media and hemp, 2021, 2025
Photos by Dennis Ha
Photos by Dennis Ha
ANNA BINTA DIALLO: PREDCITIONS
Solo exhibition
July 10 - November 9, 2025
Across successive bodies of collage works, Anna Binta Diallo has portrayed complex interconnections between human activity and the natural world. These series began with Wanderings, which analysed folk stories and the tales that structure a society’s perception of the world. Gathering visual material from scientific, literary, and historical sources, Diallo applied a diasporic and cross-cultural approach as she constructed various folkloric motifs and archetypes. Continuing from Wanderings, her Voyageur/Almanac works expanded into ecology, speculating on how different mythologies and folklores across cultures might inform our coexistence with various forms of life, and broaden environmental awareness.
Predictions, the newest iteration of this project, extends Diallo’s work into the study of forecasts – scientific and otherwise. With visual references to geology, earth science, mapping, weather events, and topography, the artist has researched data pertaining to astronomical cycles, calendars, tide tables, and farmer’s almanacs of the past and present. Her latest works ask: What was projected into the future by past peoples? What has come true? What hasn’t? What could?
Diallo envisions her own imaginative set of predictions, proposing infinite loops of imagery that can be re-interpreted multiple times, in different cycles. She integrates nonlinear and even nonverbal storytelling, suggesting both new and ancient notions of narrative formed by images in relation. Through layering flora, fauna, human connection to land, and the cosmos, Diallo imagines speculative paths that our ecological and cultural landscapes might follow, and the unexpected constellations of meaning that can guide us through uncertain times.
Solo exhibition
July 10 - November 9, 2025
Across successive bodies of collage works, Anna Binta Diallo has portrayed complex interconnections between human activity and the natural world. These series began with Wanderings, which analysed folk stories and the tales that structure a society’s perception of the world. Gathering visual material from scientific, literary, and historical sources, Diallo applied a diasporic and cross-cultural approach as she constructed various folkloric motifs and archetypes. Continuing from Wanderings, her Voyageur/Almanac works expanded into ecology, speculating on how different mythologies and folklores across cultures might inform our coexistence with various forms of life, and broaden environmental awareness.
Predictions, the newest iteration of this project, extends Diallo’s work into the study of forecasts – scientific and otherwise. With visual references to geology, earth science, mapping, weather events, and topography, the artist has researched data pertaining to astronomical cycles, calendars, tide tables, and farmer’s almanacs of the past and present. Her latest works ask: What was projected into the future by past peoples? What has come true? What hasn’t? What could?
Diallo envisions her own imaginative set of predictions, proposing infinite loops of imagery that can be re-interpreted multiple times, in different cycles. She integrates nonlinear and even nonverbal storytelling, suggesting both new and ancient notions of narrative formed by images in relation. Through layering flora, fauna, human connection to land, and the cosmos, Diallo imagines speculative paths that our ecological and cultural landscapes might follow, and the unexpected constellations of meaning that can guide us through uncertain times.
Written and read by Curator Elliott Ramsey
Photo by Dennis Ha
Photo by Dennis Ha
Works on hemp
Digital collage printed on hemp
Anna Binta Diallo
Solar Orbit (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
44 x 44 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Tide Orbit (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
24 x 24 in.
Works on walls
Digital collage printed on LexJet Media
Anna Binta Diallo
Farmer (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
88.79 x 40.51 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Picking Berries (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
105.91 in x 70.50 in
Anna Binta Diallo
Boy with Lamb (Sheppard) (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
75.26 x 61 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Big Catch (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
55.11 x 92.03 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Undergrowth Orbit (Predictions)
2025
70 x 70 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Oracle (Predictions)
2025
96 x 39 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Pilgrims (Predictions)
2025
43.37 x 81.75 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Edibles (Predictions)
2025
26.11 x 69.5 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Harvest Orbit (Predictions)
2025
90.5 x 90.5 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Streams and Serpents Orbit (Predictions)
2025
68 x 68 in.
Digital collage printed on hemp
Anna Binta Diallo
Solar Orbit (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
44 x 44 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Tide Orbit (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
24 x 24 in.
Works on walls
Digital collage printed on LexJet Media
Anna Binta Diallo
Farmer (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
88.79 x 40.51 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Picking Berries (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
105.91 in x 70.50 in
Anna Binta Diallo
Boy with Lamb (Sheppard) (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
75.26 x 61 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Big Catch (Voyageur/Almanac)
2021
55.11 x 92.03 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Undergrowth Orbit (Predictions)
2025
70 x 70 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Oracle (Predictions)
2025
96 x 39 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Pilgrims (Predictions)
2025
43.37 x 81.75 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Edibles (Predictions)
2025
26.11 x 69.5 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Harvest Orbit (Predictions)
2025
90.5 x 90.5 in.
Anna Binta Diallo
Streams and Serpents Orbit (Predictions)
2025
68 x 68 in.
