Khalifa Mané – My heritage

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Presented by: MAISON D’AFRIQUE Gallery

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Khalifa Mané shares how his art reflects the struggles and dreams of African youth. Through his paintings, Khalifa addresses issues that affect his generation, creating art that speaks both to local challenges and global concerns. In the work presented here, entitled My heritage, he presents a child born during the war, in an atmosphere of violence and terror. He wonders how his environment and the world around him might affect his future. this creation recalls the words of Anton Chekhov: “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not to answer them.” The questions raised by Khalifa Mané are resolutely contemporary and go beyond the borders of Senegal. They question the place of young Africans in society. In West Africa, young people are increasingly organizing themselves and trying to impose a new discourse on the old school of thought. The youth movements against neo-colonialism that abound in the region are the expression of a profound disenchantment with those in power.

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Khalifa Mané was born in 1998 in Casamance, southern Senegal. He began his artistic journey in the studio of French painter Le Guenne, where he spent several years learning the basics of painting. Khalifa Mané is a non-conformist artist. Like many young people of his generation in Africa, he has lost faith in those who lead and shape the continent. The leaders symbolize a certain academicism and a rigid system. So it’s not surprising that Khalifa left the Fine Arts School in Dakar after just one year. This early training, combined with his desire to break away from the norm, has shaped him into a unique and outspoken artist. Newspaper collages, integrated into the texture of his works, evokes the omnipresence of media narratives around us. Fragments of text and image become visual testimonies to a troubled socio-political context, a way for the artist to make palpable the systemic violence he denounces. This artistic choice sends a clear message. Leaders’ inaction in the face of youthful aspirations is perceived as a refusal to act. It reflects a denial in the face of urgent demands for social justice. Art and culture carry political stakes. They are arenas of subversion, ways of challenging the established order. Here, Khalifa Mané shows this subversion. He does not conform to the established order. He becomes something of a nonconformist. He should be understood as a free man, defining his own path, his destiny, as the author of his own story, working on themes he feels most compelled to tackle. That’s why his work touches on current issues of emancipation, revolution, and subversion. He brings a fresh perspective to society. He does this through a powerful visual language. It’s an expressive artistic writing filled with meaning and symbolic elements.

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Opening in May 2024, the MAISON D’AFRIQUE is a new art and culture space developed by the Galerie Mémoires Africaines to expand its cultural offerings on Senegal’s Petite Côte.
A pioneering art space in Saly Portudal, it seamlessly blends art and culture to redefine artistic excellence.
The Maison d’Afrique comprises two large exhibition halls spanning 350m², two creative studios spanning 275m², and an apartment that can simultaneously accommodate two artists in residence.

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