Fodé Camara
(b. 1958) Senegal
The Story
Fodé Camara was born in Médina, Dakar, Senegal in 1958, where he continues to live and work. He holds degrees in decorative and fine arts from the National School of Arts in Dakar (École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs). His awards and commissions are too numerous to mention. Perhaps the strongest validation as to importance of his work is that he is well collected and appreciated in Dakar, the city from which he draws so much of his inspiration.
In his painting, he prefers the presence of hand prints or of sandals to signs of sacred calligraphy.
He also paints his city, Dakar, with its “car rapides” (common transport cars). Recently, focusing on the human figure at the expense of abstract, he offers large nudes, critical of the Dakaroise society, such as the figure in “irresponsible one” hiding behind a sign (or closing his eyes in the face of misery, AIDS etc.) as well as the figures in “it is written”, “Yala Yana”.
Recently, focusing on the human figure at the expense of the abstract, he offers large nudes, critical of the Dakaroise society, such as the “irresponsible one” hiding behind a sign (or closing his eyes in the face of misery, AIDS etc.) since “it is written”, “Yala Yana”.
