Guidées par les envoutantes voix de @black_goddess221 et Zeina, hier, nous avons presenté "Waañ Wi" de @gadaay et Këru Jigeen Ñi à Saint-Louis, dans le cadre de l'off du @festivalsaintlouisjazz . Merci @ndarweesul pour l'accueil et l'organisation du vernissage. L'expo reste ouverte jusqu'à fin juin. Laissez-vous vous emporter par l'esprit d'#AminataFall...
Curaté par @diamamdu
📸 @ndarnataal@massow_ka@estrellasenfer
Developed during a residency in Dëkandoo, Senegal, W a a ñ W i emerges through relational encounters: conversations, meals, songs, and material practice. Dialogue with Absa Guindo, director of Këru Jigeen Ñi, shifted authorship from individual to collective,
grounding the project in feminist collaboration.
The project resists solitary authorship; women’s hands, instincts, and knowledge shape the works, reflecting collective care and Bugul’s nonlinear narrative approach. Extending Forgotten Icons, Waañ Wi honors under-archived women whose practices inform contemporary resistance and world-making.
C o n t r i b u t o r s :
Absa Guindo - Këru Jigeen Ñi
Mani Kallé - Ban ak Suuf
Mamadou Dia / Beleu Boy - Ëttu Gandiol
Residency Research : Laura Feal
Seynabou Faye - Documentation
Moussa Boye - Montage son
Massow Ka - Assistant Photo
Maguette Diagne - As Aminata Fall
Amina Niang - As Aminata Spectrum
Curator : Mamadou Dia
Show is open from May 14 to June 30, 2026 at Ndar Wessul, Saint Louis
Opening acts : Zeyna and Khady Kane Fall
Photography : Binta Z Diop
Waañ wi est l’endroit où l’on cuisine les rêves de demain ou où l’on ravive ceux d’hier, pour les garder bien présents. Lui, il s’y est rendu chaque matin, comme un rituel, nous offrant à nous, voisins de Dëkandoo, des petits-déjeuners riches en couleurs et en rires, servant à préparer avec énergie la journée qui commence. Car Waañ bi, c’est cela. Un espace politique de femmes -de personnes plutôt -, qui se réunissent, se respectent et s’écoutent. Mais aussi qui se plaignent et se lamentent — pour cela existe le jazz.
Texte : Laura Féal
Vernissage ce 14 mai à @ndarweesul
Le prochain 14 mai on aura le plaisir de vous présenter l'exposition WAAÑ WI de Djibril Drame @gadaay et Keru Jigeen Ñi (@hahataygandiol ) ❣ Dans le cadre du @festivalsaintlouisjazz nous partagerons ce travail de recherche sur la figure d'#AminataFall dive saintlouisienne de la musique et du cinéma. ❣ À travers une cartographie sensible où la terre, la voix et le geste pictural se rencontrent, Djibril Drame capte l’énergie indomptable d’Aminata Fall — son cri, sa prière, son rire intérieur, sa liberté - et la transforme en matière vivante. Vernissage: 14 mai 2026, à partir de 16h à @ndarweesul
INHERITING THE FUTURE
April 16th to May 16th
October Gallery presents a dynamic group exhibition of intriguing works by Zana Masombuka, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, Alexis Peskine, and Djibril Dramé. Displaying painting, sculpture and photography, this multilayered exhibition explores how each artist understands their own identity as a function of a specific heritage—blending past histories, cultural traditions and spiritual legacies—while acknowledging the changing environments in which they’ve developed and the disruptive impacts of globalisation.
Curated and Powered by @octobergallerylondon
📸 @jonathangreetphotographer
Over ten months in 2025–26, Pacific traveled to five cities across Africa with the African Film and Media Arts Collective ( @a.f.m.a.c ) documenting the organization's work with local partners and directing a series of social films. In each city — Lagos, Tangier, Nairobi, Dakar, and Cape Town — we collaborated with local photographers to capture the creative communities and daily life of the places they call home.
In Dakar, we had the privilege of working with photographer and artist Djibril Dramé. Djibril's practice is rooted in the spiritual ethos of the Baye Fall Sufi brotherhood, weaving poetic and politically engaged approaches to cultural memory with contemporary African aesthetics. Seeing Dakar through his lens was unforgettable.
We'll be sharing photos from all five cities in the coming week. AFMAC is a platform championing African filmmakers, media artists, and cultural visionaries across the continent and diaspora. Pacific is honored to work alongside Julie Mehretu, Mehret Mandefro, and @bmwgroupculture on this vital initiative.
Next week, ‘Inheriting the Future’ opens at October Gallery, bringing together works by Djibril Dramé, Alexis Peskine, Zana Masombuka and Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga.
The exhibition introduces photographic works by Djibril Dramé, whose practice weaves poetic and philosophically engaged reflections on cultural memory with contemporary African aesthetics. Through these portraits, he explores the inner beauty and layered identity of the Baye Fall Sufi Brotherhood, in which service to others is understood as a form of spiritual devotion.
🗓️ ‘Inheriting the Future’ runs from 16th April – 16th May, 2026.
Featuring: @gadaay@eddykamuanga@alexispeskine@ndebelesuperhero
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Djibril Dramé, ‘Ndewendeul Series: Sama Xarit’, 2022.
Print on Hahnemühle photorag 308g paper, 120 x 80 cm.
SEEING OTHERWISE
Seeing Otherwise brings together interlinked exhibitions unfolding across Cape Town, South Africa and Lagos, Nigeria. Conceived as a single structure expressed across two cities, each site approaches photography as a practice of crossing rather than a medium of capture. In the hands of Kelani Abass, Delali Ayivi, Nuits Balnéaires, Djibril Drame, Yagazie Emezi, and Sharon Walters, images do not resolve into evidence; they are worked, layered, and re-situated to operate as passages between the visible and the sensed. What binds each practice is a shared attention to spiritual–material entanglement: an understanding that images are not inert surfaces, and that belief is never detached from the gestures and environments through which it moves.
Alongside @nuits_balneaires@abass.kelani@yagazieemezi@london_artist1@delaliayivi
Curated by @thedadagallery
Our group exhibition Seeing Otherwise opens tonight in Cape Town❕🌀The exhibition brings together interlinked exhibitions across Cape Town and Lagos. The show in Cape Town features Djibril Drame, Yagazie Emezi and Delali Ayivi.
Djibril Dramé is a Senegalese multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the spiritual ethos of the Baye Fall Sufi brotherhood. His work weaves poetic and politically engaged approaches to cultural memory with contemporary African aesthetics. We are presenting two works from his critically acclaimed ‘Forgotten Icons’ series which celebrates two women Senegalese artists — traditional singer Yande Codou Sene and tassukat Aby Gana Diop. Both women represent a radical shift from the norm in Senegalese music, redefining genres and creating reverbrating impact through their art.
Opening Reception
21 February, 6pm
Art + Industry Gallery
42 Dorp Street, City Centre
Cape Town 8000
Et si Aminata s’était réincarnée ? Wañ wi, Film Photography ( Nikon F 3 ), Fine Art Print on hahnemule Photo Rag 308G, Gandiol, Sénégal 2025
Size : 80 cm x 120 cm
Edition limited : 1/ 3 + 2 Artists proof
On view this december 29th during @festivaltaarugandiol | Powered by @dekandoo | organized by @laurafeal
