Talks | Visual Art
Artist Talk: Omar Victor Diop & Street Etiquette
- 4:30PM
Acclaimed Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop discusses his creative process and the convergence of sartorial influences between West Africa and the US with the popular lifestyle website and creative agency Street Etiquette. Moderated by Holly Shen, Curator of Visual Art at BAM and followed by a reception of the BAM Fisher rooftop.
Staged Portraits of Africa’s Contemporary Urban
May 29—Jun 4, 2016
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Visual Art presents four works by Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop from the artist’s Studio of Vanities series. This ongoing project features elaborately staged portraits that capture the many and varied fresh faces of an emerging creative class in contemporary Africa. The portraits themselves reflect a kind of creative collaboration, in this case between sitter and photographer. The portraits are on display in the lobby of the Peter Jay Sharp Building for the duration of the DanceAfrica festival.