LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery in Abidjan is pleased to present its new group exhibition, entitled Brave New World, curated by Amédé Régis Mulin. Presented from Thursday, 20 May 20 to Saturday, 3 July, 2021, this exhibition brings together a selection of works by four Malian artists: Ange Dakouo, Alhassane Konté (Lass), Dramane Bamana and Dramane Diarra.

Inspired by the novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, the exhibition denounces an industrial and hyper-consuming society, implicated in the disrespect for nature and its systemic plundering. In spite of numerous warnings, it seems our society is not reacting; and the evolutions of today’s world can unfortunately be compared to those of the dangerous universe described in the fiction of Huxley.

The crises that regularly shake Mali can also be analyzed through the prism of Huxley's novel: an opposition between the world order, which wants to be civilized, and social and humanist resistance, which can be found in the historical development of the last thirty years in Mali.

In the exhibition Brave New World, four young artists from Bamako come to narrate a reading of their world in prey to these struggles and present us with a poetry of their vision of an optimistic development of our society:

 

While Ange Dakouo intends to protect us with these woven gris-gris and to alert us to the current drifts of our societies, in the optimistic perspective of a global and close change;

Alhassane Konté (Lass) takes us to the jungle, a protected natural space where human societies evolve with benevolence and humanism in harmony with nature and in a form of redemption in solidarity;

Dramane Bamana invites us into social and ironically candid frescoes;

And Dramane Diarra has fun deciphering the different forms of conditioning of which we are victims with onirism.

These four artists show us what the world could be if we paid more attention to our daily behavior, placing sharing and respect for our Earth at the center of our concerns. They offer us optimistic alternatives, convinced that our world can be remade according to humanistic and planet-friendly foundations.