ROOTS 2025 > Guest Artist > Modou Dieng Yacine (Senegal)
Modou Dieng Yacine is a contemporary African visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Dieng Yacine has spent the last 20 years between the United States and his native city of Dakar, Senegal. In his mixed media works he combines painting and photography to create a dualistic positioning where both mediums are engaged and activated by one another. For Dieng Yacine the imagination of the painting itself often dictates the medium used in the work. Frequently incorporating materials such as denim, burlap, cardboard and wood frames, vinyl records, he is affirming both his African Identity and the contemporary lifestyle he finds himself in.
In building his distinct color palette, Dieng Yacine is selecting from the shades of the Sub-Saharan desert dust, adjusted and layered with the shifting seasonal coloration of tropical tones.. His geometry and forms are derived and influenced by his love for Bauhaus architecture and design, creating a spatial implementation of emotional gestures and intellectual decisions on the surface where the chaos of urban African architecture is confronted with a postcolonial discourse, intercultural dialogues and migrations. Dieng Yacine has exhibited internationally and is the co-founder of Blackpuffin curatorial company based in Chicago. Dieng Yacine holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, USA.
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Financed by: República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto, Direção-Geral das Artes and Município de Lagos
Support: Museu de Lagos, Município de Caldas da Rainha / Centro de Artes, CAAA – Centro para os Assuntos de Arte e Arquitectura (Guimarães), Messe Militar de Lagos, Teatro Experimental de Lagos
