Maïmouna Guerresi. Spirit / Soul

Catalog created for the exhibition “Maïmouna Guerresi. Spirit / Soul”, by Silvia Cirelli, Yards of Image, Milan, 14 November 2019 – 18 January 2020.

"Italian by birth but Senegalese by adoption, Maïmouna accompanies us in a visionary world that crosses the complexities of identity syncretism, creating an allusive dialogue between European and African culture. Thanks to a multifaceted approach of clear emotional resonance, the artist invites us to discover a middle ground, an apparent place, where the usual structural barriers are overturned, to give way to an intimate dimension that mixes personal ingredients with testimonies of reality. […]
Suspended between figuration and immateriality, the artist's monumental subjects emphasize a spiritual metamorphosis that fully captures the urgency of this inner awareness and through mystical references and thaumaturgical metaphors, reveals its true essence.
Gestures, chromatism, choice of clothes - strictly handmade by the artist, as the Sufi tradition dictates - or scenarios, in fact they build a decoded universe. This seductive creative process is easily discernible in the complex aesthetic structure, that is projected into an allegorical virtuosity full of allusions ".

From the text "The breath of tuba" by Silvia Cirelli