Camara Gueye and Mandoye Mbengue are two visual artists whose creative journeys have been deeply shaped by significant life experiences.

Camara Gueye, based in Diamniadio, recalls his earliest sketches from childhood, drawn with charcoal. The presence of strong black strokes and pronounced lines has remained a constant throughout his work. With a keen interest in social themes, Gueye develops rich aesthetic correspondences within his hieratic portraits.

For him, his artworks are akin to statues, classical, universal heads. He tirelessly reclaims familiar drawings, integrating elements from his everyday environment. Animals such as cats, dogs, and birds also populate his pieces, inspiring his distinctive artistic style.

Throughout his artistic evolution, his leading figures, lines, and compositions have transformed, influenced by various encounters and paths taken. One such path led him to Mandoye Mbengue.

Mandoye Mbengue, who lives in Bargny, draws inspiration from the hardships and challenges she has faced throughout her life. Confronting these recurring struggles, she chose to transcend her thoughts through art, adopting an unusual and original colorful approach to bring her creations to life.

Her paintings, primarily figurative, are rooted in memories of her childhood and explore the complex relationship between humans and their environment. She delves into themes such as memory, tradition, and the connection between culture and history in her region. Each of her pictorial anecdotes features unique compositions and a distinctive freshness of color.

Both artists, in their own ways, express their feelings through a connection to the Senegalese universe, both spatial and internal, creating works that tell local stories and personal life experiences.