Installation
DGÉBA
Anna Safiatou Touré
- Venue
- Magma
- Year
- 2021 / work in progress
- Medium
- Edition leporello
About
Dgéba is a fictional language created by Anna Safiatou Touré and used throughout Gamanké Museum. Constantly evolving, it draws in particular on the sounds of Bambara and Songhay, spoken by her father in Mali, alongside influences from other West and Central African languages. Faced with the non-transmission of her family languages, the artist invents her own means of transmission. Stepping outside French and English becomes an intimate, poetic and political gesture.
Leporello edition57 pages, approximately 850 cm long; hand-bound by Maxime Blanpain – Volumen binding / printed on 300 g Arena Natural Rough paper / produced in June 2025, in Brussels / 2 copies
Gallery
Artist
Anna Safiatou Touré
Anna Safiatou Touré (1996) is a Franco-Malian multidisciplinary artist
based in Brussels. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire (2019) and from ENSAV La Cambre with a degree in photography (2022). Her work explores the space that unites or separates the two sides of any migration narrative. Her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Belgium and internationally, notably at ISELP and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), FOMU (Antwerp), Framer Framed (Amsterdam), Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) and the International Centre for the Image (Dublin).
