Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen hosts the release of Mame-Diarra Niang’s latest MACK publication “The Citadel: a trilogy.” The three-part volume, published in July 2022, is the story of an inner journey, told in three movements. It maps a route through discovery, loss, and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist. Her intimate interest in the notion of territory translates into a refracted representation of the landscapes she rediscovered on this visit. The places before Niang’s lens are at once forensically studied and transformed into fabular non-places. Selected works from the three series “Metropolis” (2015), “At the Wall” (2014), and “Sahel Gris” (2013) are currently presented in the K21 exhibition “Shifting Dialogues. Photography from The Walther Collection.”
Wednesday 3 August
20:00 CEST
K21
Ständehausstraße 1
40217 Düsseldorf
More information about the event here.
About The Citadel: a trilogy
The Citadel is the story of an inner journey, told in three movements. It maps a route through discovery, loss, and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist. In 2007, Mame-Diarra Niang returned to Senegal to bury her father after spending years away living in France. Her intimate interest in the notion of territory translates into a refracted representation of the landscapes she rediscovered on this visit. The places before Niang’s lens are at once forensically studied and transformed into fabular non-places.
Find out more and order copies here.
