SAMA DEUK YAAY // MY MOTHERS LAND. 2024, Nairobi Kenya
SAMA DEUK YAAY // MY MOTHERS LAND is an autobiographical project in which Mouminatou explores her memories of leaving Senegal as a child and making a new home in America with her accompanying family. She uses bright colors and symbolic imagery to evoke girlhood and center childlike perspectives of migration, home-making, and the familiarity of nature across continents.
THE GIRL WHO FLEW FROM DAKAR
93cm x 150cm
GONNA MAKE THIS GARDEN GROW, 2024 52cm x 60cm
HENNA FINGERs and HENNA TOEs, 2024 80cm x 92cm
FIRST PARTITION, 2024 80cm x 90cm
I LOST MY FATHERs TOUNGE, 2024 50cm x 60cm
OCTOPUS GIRL, 2024 80cm X 90cm
MY SECRET SONG : LADY BUG LOVE, 2024 54cm x 65cm
MAMAs FLOWER SPOT, 2024 66cm cm6cm
SWEET MAGNOLIA, 2024
130cm x 160cm
ADDITIONAL PAINTINGS
LIGHT OF THE VEIL, 2024 40.6cm x 50.8cm
KISS OF THE SUN, 2024 40.6cm x 50.8cm
MY GLASS HOME, 2024 40.6cm x 50.8cm
SPEND SOME TIME, 2023 17.8cm x 17.8cm
BENEATH THE MANGO TREES, 2023 17.8cm x 17.8cm
COME AROUND, 2023 17.8cm x 17.8cm
THE TWELVE, 2023 55cm x 55cm
UNTITLED, 2024
HERON BIRDS, 2023 50.8cm x 50.8cm
HIS LIFE LAID DOWN, 2024 29.7cm x 42cm
THOSE WHO SOW, 2023 50cm x 50cm
MOTHERs BURDEN, 2023 20.3cm x 27.94cm
CHOICES, 2024 29.7cm x 42cm
WHAT SHE SAW IN THE NIGHT, 2024 29.7cm x 42cm
SWEET TOOTH, 2023 29.7cm x 42cm
FOR SYDNAE, 2021 40cm x 58cm
AT EASE, SOLDIER, 2023 29.7cm x 42cm
SECRET PLACE, 2022 40.6cm x 50.8cm