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Mali


2014-2015

Mohammed and Ahmeyad, 2014

Bamako, Mali
Acrylic on paper (detail)

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Mali
2014-2015

Bamako

"Before closing up his place when Islamist groups arrived in Tessalit, the old man took care to bury his book collection under sand on his patio…"

Abstracts

"He rents a little room on a piece of land in Sirakoro, a district of Bamako which also draws displaced people. The old philosophy professor carried off a bit of literature with him in his exile. He reads Flaubert pending an improvement of the situation up there. Before closing up his place when Islamist groups arrived in Tessalit, the old man took care to bury his book collection under sand on his patio.

At nightfall, not far away, people from the North gather to share tea over a game of draughts and a bowling pitch improvised from dirt ground on a calm road. I seem to recognize, amongst the throwers and shooters, protagonists from the conflict who I thought were totally opposed to one another. Whether they’re ardent nationalists or secessionist supporters of the MNLA, they’re no less cousins and game partners."

 

Extract from Retour à Tombouctou, 2015, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Mali 691
Part of the Amoye 'clan' is gathered, 2015

Bamako, Mali
Acrylic on paper
61 x 92 cm

Mali 711
Mohammed, 2015

Bamako, Mali
Oil on paper
41 x 31 cm

Mali 4191
Mohammed and Ahmeyad, 2014

Bamako, Mali
Acrylic on paper
61 x 46 cm

Mali 761
Tikilssou, 2014

Bamako, Mali
Oil on photograph
49 x 40 cm

Mali 804
Chez Dada, 2014

Bamako, Mali
C-Print
120 x 198 cm

Mali 697
La parcelle de Mohammed, 2014

Bamako, Mali
Acrylic on paper
51 x 73 cm

Maps

Mali 708
Conflict 2012, 2015

Oil on paper
56 x 76 cm

Mali 709
Musics and droughts, 2015

Oil on paper
56 x 76 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Bamako Rive droite, 2014

© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Bamako Rive droite 2, 2014

© Bruno Pellarin

Books

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