Yama Ndiaye

Yama Ndiaye - © Villa Noailles Hyères
France Senegal

Yama Ndiaye
France / Sénégal
Born in 1999
Graduated from Gobelins Paris in 2023
Lives and works in Paris, France
contact@yamandiaye.com
IG @yama.ndiaye
site: yamandiaye.com

Tangana « Chaleur »
Tangana: heat
I remember this word, whispered tirelessly by my aunts during the scorching afternoons in Senegal, fans fluttering in their hands. Lying on the leather sofa, I let myself be lulled by the heat, drifting between their voices and my own dreams.
This project explores those motionless intervals that onto the space of dreams, those moments frozen by the oppressive heat, which gently erase reality to give way to a state of floating. Each image captures that fleeting moment when dreams disturb perception. Using a variety of image, the series depicts these different thresholds, these passages where gestures become rare and everything seems to slow down: on the edge of the tangible and the dreamlike, between silences and vibrations.

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