DETAIL: Omar Victor Diop, Nanny et Quao, Jamaîque, 1720, 2016, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 120 x 163 cm, 47 x 64 in, Ed of 3 + 2 AP. Courtesy MAGNIN-A.
Omar Victor Diop developed an interest in photography at an early age. As a child, he was nourished by the masterpieces of Afro-Caribbean literature, and by characters such as "Segou" by the author Maryse Condé, who go from being a "foreigner" to a "notable" in a given society. Omar Victor Diop sees this journey as representative of his own, one in which he has found himself on the side of minorities who need to learn from models of adaptation to different contexts and new ways of being.
“It feels great to be a creative from Africa right now. I have been overwhelmed by the quality of the works shown here at 1-54 and it is truly an honour to be one of the artists to exhibit in this art fair.”
Diop has been shown at 1-54 London since 2014, in New York, for its first edition, in 2015, and in 2019 in Marrakech.