THE GAMANKÉ MUSEUM
The artist
Anna Safiatou Touré (1996) is a Franco-Malian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire (2019) and from ENSAV La Cambre with a degree in photography (2022). Her work explores the space that unites or separates the two sides of any migration narrative. Her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Belgium and internationally, notably at ISELP and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), FOMU (Antwerp), Framer Framed (Amsterdam), Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) and the International Centre for the Image (Dublin).
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About the work
THE GAMANKÉ MUSEUM
In the video game Gamanké Museum, this universe becomes a territory to explore. In a fictional desert stands a museum dedicated to the Gamanké masks, supposedly originating from an imaginary region called Kanéma. By activating the masks, visitors gradually release the entities they represent. The museum becomes a space in which what had been frozen, displaced or separated from its context can regain a form of existence and movement. This digital re-emergence acts as a form of symbolic repair, transforming the collection into an active, living narrative.
vidéo game, more or less 30' / vo : dgéba / st : english or french
June Ha : musique & sound design
Marina Ashrafi : typographie
Christie Dinganga & Anna Safiatou Touré : voix off
Soutien : Fonds Roger de Conynck
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