WANDERINGS
SCHOOL OF ART GALLERY - UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
OCTOBER 14 - DECEMBER 4, 2021
PHOTO CREDIT : KAREN ASHER
ANNA BINTA DIALLO: WANDERINGS
Curated by Blair Fornwald, Director/Curator
October 14 to December 4, 2021
A work with seemingly limitless bounds, Anna Binta Diallo’s Wanderings is comprised of an expansive collection of human and animal figures referencing folk stories, primarily from the artist’s Senegalese and French Métis heritage. These figures are collaged from celestial and terrestrial maps and images, charts, diagrams, illustrations, and texts. Diallo draws from a vast archive, attesting to a collective impulse to describe, classify, and hierarchize, to make sense and order out of complexity and chaos, a process that is both deeply human and deeply flawed.
With each iteration of Wanderings, Diallo creates new narratives, teasing out affinities and disjunctures with and between mythologies and bodies of knowledge. Refusing to privilege one system over another, her work points to the ways they are connected, and to the complexity of human experience and identity.
ARTIST TALK
Thursday, October 14, 7:00 pm CDT
Facilitated on Zoom + live-streaming on the SOAG YouTube channel. Registration required - Link in @schoolofart_um bio.
Image: Anna Binta Diallo, Wanderings, 2019-2020 (detail), collages printed on Photo-Tex, Courtesy of the Artist
Please check Museum London website for information on COVID-19 closures.
Curated by Blair Fornwald, Director/Curator
October 14 to December 4, 2021
A work with seemingly limitless bounds, Anna Binta Diallo’s Wanderings is comprised of an expansive collection of human and animal figures referencing folk stories, primarily from the artist’s Senegalese and French Métis heritage. These figures are collaged from celestial and terrestrial maps and images, charts, diagrams, illustrations, and texts. Diallo draws from a vast archive, attesting to a collective impulse to describe, classify, and hierarchize, to make sense and order out of complexity and chaos, a process that is both deeply human and deeply flawed.
With each iteration of Wanderings, Diallo creates new narratives, teasing out affinities and disjunctures with and between mythologies and bodies of knowledge. Refusing to privilege one system over another, her work points to the ways they are connected, and to the complexity of human experience and identity.
ARTIST TALK
Thursday, October 14, 7:00 pm CDT
Facilitated on Zoom + live-streaming on the SOAG YouTube channel. Registration required - Link in @schoolofart_um bio.
Image: Anna Binta Diallo, Wanderings, 2019-2020 (detail), collages printed on Photo-Tex, Courtesy of the Artist
Please check Museum London website for information on COVID-19 closures.
