Dr. Ndiaye, Curator and Director of the Théodore Monod Museum in Dakar, Senegal, will present about his current project Transmission with Atlanta's High Museum, and the Monod Museum (formerly the French Institute of Black Africa, founded in 1936). Dr. Ndiaye experiments with research and exhibition projects that interweave contemporary art and historical heritage, a relationship that lies at the heart of Transmission and all his museum work. “We need to understand the ways in which contemporary artists revisit the past, creating counter-narratives to invent a different future. We then need to analyze the ways in which museums work with archives and negotiate history.”

This event is sponsored by Rachel Gabara, Associate Professor of French in the UGA Department of Romance Languages. For more information contact rgabara@uga.edu
 

About Speaker

El Hadji Malick Ndiaye holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Rennes II (France). He is also a graduate of the French National Institute of Cultural Heritage (INP) in Paris, a former fellow of the National Institute of Art History (INHA), and a former post-doctoral student at the Laboratory of Excellence Creation, Arts, and Heritage (Labex CAP). He is currently a researcher at the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (IFAN) and curator of the Théodore Monod Museum of African Art in Dakar, Senegal. He was the art director of the 14th Dakar Biennale of Contemporary Arts (May 19–June 21, 2022), and one of the curators of the Picasso in Dakar, 1972-2022 exhibition that was held at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar (April–June 2022). His writings focus on contemporary art and African museums.