MaÏ

French and Senegalese visual artist, born in eastern France in 1997. After a public preparatory class at the EMBA in Gennevilliers, she obtained her DNA at the ENSAD in Nancy in 2019, then was congratulated for her DNSEP at the Beaux-arts in Nantes in 2021.

In her practice, she materializes images and forms in order to provoke questioning, discussion and debate. She intends to "denounce horror without participating in the saturation of violent images". Aware that this approach can provoke discomfort, uneasiness and other uncomfortable feelings, she nevertheless attaches great importance to deviating from the role of the mass media and prefers to inspire mental images. It is mainly through sculpture, video or text that she navigates between the past and the present to reappropriate various stories and give them life in our contemporaneity. She deals with themes such as history, politics, transmission, spirituality, religion and the relationship to memory. Her creative process begins with meticulous research, the exploration of material archives, but also listening to the living stories she gathers during her investigations.