Parcours des mondes: Seyni Awa Camara & Estevão Mucavele

In the 1950s, in southern Senegal, Seyni Awa Camara was introduced to pottery by her mother. As the story goes, she once vanished into the forest and reappeared days later, holding a clay figurine in her arms. Seyni claims to have received her gift during a mystical experience. Since then, she has created captivating anthropomorphic sculptures that seem to bridge the visible and the invisible.

Around the same time, Estevão Mucavele was working in the mines of Cape Town. Upon returning to Maputo, he began traveling across deserts and canyons—landscapes shaped by nature and drenched in overwhelming light, shifting between blue, pink, and orange hues. He paints these still, silent, and often hostile scenes as if they were abstract visions suspended in time.

Camara and Mucavele are extraordinary, singular artists whose work invites us into the mysteries of the world—beyond logic, beyond time.

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