Le Langage des Objets

Video Documentation

TALKING OBJECTS LAB @Dakar. Discussion and Opening – Presentation by artist Viyé Diba within his residence at the Museum Théodore Monod. 4 December 2021, 17-19 h, Museum Théodore Monod in Dakar, Senegal.

What knowledge is hidden in objects? What memories are archived in them? What do they have to tell us and how do we make them speak? The event "Le Langage des Objects" at the Musée Théodore Monod in Dakar brought together artists and experts from different disciplines to discuss the identities of objects and their inherent knowledge.

During a three-week residency, artist Viyé Diba, together with artist Caroline Gueye, entered into a dialogue with the objects in the collection of the Musée Théodore Monod. In particular, he explored the question of how to re-establish the link between the objects and modern Senegalese society. The artists presented the works created during the residency and discussed with El Hadji Malick Ndiaye (art historian, curator Musée Théodore Monod), Hamady Bocoum (archaeologist, director of the Musée des Civilisations Noires), Mamarame Seck (linguist, curator at the musée historique de Gorée, IFAN, Ch. A. Diop, Dakar) and with the curators of the project TALKING OBJECTS Isabel Raabe and Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (Germany).

The think tank, exhibition and event series TALKING OBJECTS LAB explores forms and practices of knowledge from the African continent and tests strategies of mediation and visualisation. The LAB accompanies the development of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE, a digital archive for decolonial knowledge production, which is scheduled to go online in 2024. The Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN Ch. A. Diop), to which the Musée Théodore Monod belongs, is a partner of the project in Senegal.

The event was supported by the Federal Foreign Office.

Videography by Kerry Etolat Viderot. French with English and French subtitles.

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Viyé Diba, Musée Theodore Monod Dakar, 2021
Video: Le Langage des Objets at Musée Theodore Monod Dakar