Term: November 2026-Jenuary 2027
@khbamba
Khadim GUEYE in civil status known as Kha Bamba, name of visual artist, was born in october 20, 1991 in Diourbel, Senegal. Of Senegalese nationality, he lives and works in Dakar, precisely in Guédiawaye Hamo 6, where he grew up. After his studies from primary to final year, in 2013 he passed the entrance exam to the National School of Arts of Senegal (ENA) for training in visual arts. In 2017, he obtained his National Diploma of Fine Arts (DNBA) by majoring with honors in the visual communication- graphic design sector. Inspired by her seamstress mother and his grandfather Papa Ibra TALL, a textile artist, precursor of art in Senegal, he decided to work with textiles as a medium and which is a material very present in his environment and his daily life.
Through an assemblage of fabrics, textiles, painting and sewing, Kha Bamba presents characters who blend and dissolve in a decor of textiles whose traditional functions have been rethought. Anonymous, these stylized figures appear as archetypes of a pan-African culture and question the malleable relationship of each person to cultural identity. He cuts, glues, assembles and paints figures in shapes inspired by the dress codes, accessories and symbols of various West African religious and ethnic groups, as well as African pop music, fashion and photography in studio. Kha Bamba creates works that question the relationship between identity and cultural openness and evoke the interrelation between cultures, traditions and modernity.
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