{"title":"Mame-Diarra Niang","description":"\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"color_39 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eMame-Diarra Niang was born in 1982, in Lyon, France and lives in Paris. She is a self-taught artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"color_39 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eHer work explores the concept of the 'plasticity of territory', a moving space of the self shaped by time, memory and forgetting, where being continuously shifts, dissolves and reappears, unfolding through never ending metamorphosis. The self is approached as a territory in perpetual transformation, alive, fluid and ungraspable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-citadel-a-trilogy","title":"The Citadel: a trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Citadel: a trilogy by Mame-Diarra Niang\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. First printing \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear new condition. Signs of wear to slipcase (see pictures) but all three books inside are as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThree volumes housed together in a printed slipcase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 1,000 signed copies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24.5 x 35 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSahel Gris\u003c\/em\u003e: Hardcover with accordian fold. 17x24cm, 176 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the Wall\u003c\/em\u003e: Two paperback books bound into a hardcover. 17x24cm, 120 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/em\u003e: Hardcover with japanese fold. 24x34.5cm, 120 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSigned by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMame-Diarra Niang at the back of Volume III, Metropolis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\"\u003eThe Citadel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of an inner journey, told in three movements. It maps a route through discovery, loss, and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist. In 2007, Mame-Diarra Niang returned to Senegal to bury her father after spending years away living in France. Her intimate interest in the notion of territory translates into a refracted representation of the landscapes she rediscovered on this visit. The places before Niang’s lens are at once forensically studied and transformed into fabular non-places. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSahel Gris\u003c\/em\u003e depicts a no-man’s land where infrastructural projects lay abandoned to the dust. It holds the roots of \u003cem\u003eThe Citadel\u003c\/em\u003e, its ‘ground zero’, where the continuous horizon line evokes a state of permanent suspension between movement and inertia. In \u003cem\u003eAt the Wall,\u003c\/em\u003e Niang pauses at a place of rest and interrogation, an oracle, and the gate to \u003cem\u003eThe Citadel\u003c\/em\u003e. In \u003cem\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/em\u003e, Niang steps finally into the belly of the beast, looking outwards from within the crowded urban superficies that constantly shift before her eyes, dazzling in the southern light. At the centre of Niang’s vision is the notion of ‘the plasticity of territory’, in which a personal investigation of place becomes indistinguishable from the photographer’s own metamorphosis, and landscape becomes a ‘material for producing many selves.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn these works, collected here in an expansive and tactile three-volume edition, a personal but analytic relationship with place emerges. City names and geographic coordinates dissolve and become as irrelevant as the visions imposed on them across history and today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mame-Diarra Niang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868538872190,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/mame-diarra-niang-the-citadel-a-trilogy-front.heic?v=1787148322"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/collections\/mame-diarra-niang.oembed","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}