Born in 1995, lives and works between Milan (Italy) and Dakar
(Senegal).
Binta Diaw’s practice takes shape at the confluence of philosophical and historical reflections on contemporary social phenomena, such as migration, the notion of belonging, the relationship with history and its archives, and the question of gender. Nurturing her art with contributions from intersectionality and ecofeminism, she attaches great importance to physical and sensory experience in her work. The artist proposes a decentering of an exclusively Eurocentric vision of history, and affirms her artistic gestures as complex rewritings of history. Her work is present in numerous collections and has shown in numerous exhibitions, most recently at the Italian Cultural Institute in Dakar as part of the 15th Dakar Biennale.