Catch the Invisible - part 1

Galerie Atiss Dakar announces the two-part group exhibition. Set across two sites - Galerie Atiss in Dakar-Medina and Atelier Aïssa Dione Tissus in Sodida, Dakar, the exhibition is grounded in a theme connecting the materiality, spirituality, and symbolism of Brazil and West Africa. The title indicates the many forms of communication through gestures and meanings outside canonised or indoctrinated language and the systems of power and control from which they emerged; instead, it favours knowledge passed down across generations that can be ancestral or looking within one’s context, landscape and surroundings for what is beyond the visible. The exhibition is a significant moment for showcasing two new major commissions by Afro-Brazilan artists Pitta and Almeida in Senegal, given that The First World Festival of Black Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Noirs) or World Festival of Negro Arts (French: Festival Mondial des arts nègres) held in Dakar in 1966, initiated by former President Leopold Senghor, under the auspices of UNESCO brought to the country than 40 Brazilian artists, singers, musicians and dancers. New and existing artworks by an intergeneration of artists compare the physiologies, origins, and histories passed down from generation to generation while working with an array of themes dealing with collective memory, ancestry, spirituality, reuse, and reinterpretation. Materials become central for connecting varied practices and approaches that ultim.