Huit Facettes

Born in Dakar, Senegal, date unknown

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Founded 1996 in Dakar, Senegal. Current members: Abdoulaye N’Doye, El Hadji Sy, Fode Camara, Cheikh Niass, Jean Marie Bruce, Mor Lisa Ba, and Amadou Kane Sy (Kan-Si).

“Huit Facettes, a Senegalese collective of visual artists, has disentangled modernism’s historical contradiction between art’s claim to aesthetic autonomy and its ambitions for social relevance. Founded in 1996, Huit Facettes focus their attention towards processual social interventions in the form of workshops. Huit Facettes tries to mediate the disparities between the “Third” and the Western world, between processes of globalization and the multiplicity of individual temporalities. Conducting workshops in rural Senegal, in villages such as Joal, Ndem, and Hamdallaye Samba M’Baye, Huit Facettes attempts to reconcile an ever increasing polarity between the urban and the suburban, between art and development, and between arts and craft (batik, painting on glass, ceramics and pyro- engraving). Huit Facettes’s social work follows a non-Western logic of capitalist liberalism where everybody should be granted privileged access to wealth by injecting artistic perception into everyday use. Their work does not simply incorporate the local into the global, but lends new strength to local idioms and exports their knowledge by confronting and profiting from the workings of global modernity.”

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