Fally
Sene Sow
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Biography

My name is Fally Sene Sow; I was born on February the 18th 1989 in Dakar, Senegal. I am passionate about drawing and writing since my youngest age. I live in Colobane, a business center more or less informal, where indescribable scenes of life happen every day. It is a propitious place for an artist, a place of incessant discovery thanks to its colors, urban setting, social climate, and the order and disorder of its daily life. It is a place where we see lots of discarded objects, each has its own form and each form can include a teaching, and an experience to try. My work was influenced by a question that I often asked myself: why would someone continue to paint objects that are disintegrating? I guess the answer is that being an artist is considering that every event, object, action is worth of becoming a pictorial subject. In this case a particular moment arrives. It requires me to listen to my feelings; it is an inspiration that comes to me with strength, which shakes me by giving me an idea about the one property of the glass: its transparency. The idea of picking up objects and making them communicate with each other under the glass. This material protects those objects, but also reveals their true reality. This is how I chose my technique (installation under the glass) a frame in which I feel more creative, where I find my true expression. Nevertheless, since art evolves, my inspiration evolves, according to the news. I believe my art testifies of its time. Since there is so much to say about Colobane, I continue now, to make my works the testimony of specific moments.