PAINTER ARTIST
LAYE KA
PRÉSENTATION DE L’ARTISTE
The Senegalese painter has long worked with the lines and stripes that give rhythm to the traditional loincloths of certain ethnic groups in Senegal.
A graduate of the École nationale des arts de Dakar, Laye Ka has been interested in bar codes for some years now, using the same rhythmic design. Recovering codes from various packaging materials, he uses collage to create compositions that take on a new function, that of original plastic writing.
THE PIECES CREATED
DURING THE “MBEDD MI MBEDDUM BUUR LA” RESIDENCE
The red line
Today more than ever, the environment is under threat.
The living environment is steadily deteriorating as a result of human selfishness, as reflected in our everyday behaviour.
In African cities, the street has become a dumping ground where people are free to dispose of their daily rubbish.
Anything goes: plastic bags, wrecks, all kinds of packaging, broken household appliances, old rags, newspaper, cigarette butts, tin cans… in short, anything we don’t need any more is good for the street… we don’t set ourselves any limits (red lines) that we don’t want to cross.
Because unfortunately “MBEDD MI MBEDDUM BUUR LA” and BUUR just doesn’t seem to be there.
The tears of nature
One of the consequences of the rural exodus is the huge increase in the population of our towns and cities, which naturally requires them to expand and new housing to be built.
But unfortunately, according to the experts, this construction goes against the rules of town planning and does not always take into account the constraints of the sites putting forward purely mercantile interests.
As a result, nature is being attacked and disembowelled: forests are disappearing, coastlines are being nibbled away at from all sides, and concrete and iron silhouettes are growing arrogantly and carelessly in the very places where trees are being uprooted and felled.
The paradigm of public interest is being trampled underfoot in favour of unbridled selfishness.