Seni Camara

Camara learned sculpture from her mother by firing terracotta figures in an open- air oven in her yard. She models clay and gives shape to stories and feelings that are products of her imagination. Her anonymous, distorted figures – balancing between crafts and naive art – represent the diversity of a world that combines monstrosity with humor. Her totem – like sculptures represent the numerous characters present on Earth: good, bad, beautiful and ugly. Camara, having no children of her own, has also dedicated her art to the great myth of maternity, where the Great Mother carries multitudes of children.

Seni Camara (1945, Senegal) lives in Bignona, Senegal. She participated in the major exhibition “Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989. Camara has exhibited worldwide including Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.