Hybrid creatures, half human and half animal, inhabit a lost world where African tradition and metropolitan modernity collide.
Soly Cissé (b. 1969, Dakar, Senegal) is one of the leading figures of contemporary Senegalese art. A graduate of the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Dakar (1996), he works across painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and installation with an overflowing creative energy that merges deep African tradition with metropolitan languages, from graffiti to new technologies. His canvases are populated by hybrid figures, part human and part animal, suspended between tradition and modernity, in a visual world that acknowledges the influence of Francis Bacon and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Selected for the Dakar Biennale (2000, 2002) and for "Africa Remix", he has exhibited across Europe, the United States and Africa. He lives and works in Dakar.
