info - Anna Safiatou Touré

Anna Safiatou Touré (1996) is a multidisciplinary French-Malian artist based in Brussels. She is currently a resident at Ateliers Mommen with the A02 collective.

Born in Bamako, Anna Safiatou left Mali for France at an age when she was too young to retain vivid memories of it. This frustration fueled in her the desire to understand migration, the relationships between two lands, two cultures, and those between the colonized and the colonizers, both past and present. It also allowed her to perceive and decode theexoticism that sub-Saharan Africa continues to evoke in our collective imagination.

The journey through this personal, historical, and cultural blending fills for her empty or unanswered spaces. On her own scale, she wishes to materialize this absence by creating her own evidence to make history heard—rendering the absence visible to tell stories from these new bodies. Like a certain poetry of emptiness, couldn’t the world be told in reverse, like a stencil, from the edge?

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10 SEPTEMBRE 2024 
Herbarium of the Congolese Department of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
15 x 21 cm – Couverture souple, 64 pages
Maison CFC x ISELP 
https://www.maisoncfc.be/fr/products/1483-herbier-du-departement-congolais-des-serres-royales-de-laeken-anna-safiatou-toure-sortie-le-10-septembre-2024

RESIDENCES

2025 : RAVI, Liege BE
2024 : Fondation Sant’Elia, Palermo IT
2023/2024 : Fondation Carrefour des Arts, Brussels BE

EXHIBITIONS

2024 : Paul Gérard x Anna Safiatou Touré, Fondation Carrefour des Arts, duo show, Brussels BE
2024 : I frutti del gelso macchiano, Villa Iblea, group show, Raguse IT2024 : Happy Endings, Fondation Carrefour des Arts, group show, Brussels BE
2024 : MUTANTX – Biennale de l’Image Possible, Liege BE
2024 : From here to elsewhere – Parcours d’Artistes de Saint-Gilles, Pianofabriek, group show, Brussels BE
2023 : Zones Grises, Salon Mommen, group show, Brussels BE
2023 : Sen Music Store, General Delegation of Wallonie-Brussels, restitution, Dakar SN
2023 : Un point rouge dans la nuit, Le Bel Ordinaire, group show, Pau FR
2022 : Festival Tashweech, Beursschouwburg, event Xéno-, Brussels BE
2022 : F(r)ictions, BPS 22, group show, Charleroi BE
2022 : Mediatine Prize 2022, La Médiatine, group show, Brussels BE
2021 : Pouvoirs & Dérives IV, Café Congo – Studio Citygate, Xéno- / la Bellone, Brussels BE
2021 : Doppelgänger, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, group show, Brussels BE
2021 : S’exposer, Hangar – Photo Art Center, group show, Brussels BE
2021 : Third Place or What ?, Galerie Tick Tack, group show, Antwerp BE
2019 : Ba Suba, Open School Galerie, group show, Nantes FR

PRIZES

2023 : Roger de Conynck funds BE
2022 : Roger de Conynck prize BE
2022 : Médiatine prize BE

FORMATIONS

2022 : Master’s degree, ENSAV La Cambre – Photography Department, Brussels, BE
2018 : Bachelor's degree, School of Fine Arts, Nantes FR

COLLABORATIONS

2023 : Contreplongées #2, Salon Mommen, co-curation with a02collective, Brussels BE
2023 : Sen Music Store, with TTH Prod and Thomas Lhoest, Créa.sen residences of pole Eunic Sénégal, Dakar SN
2022 : Contreplongées #1, Salon Mommen, co-curation with a02collective, Brussels BE

PUBLICATIONS

2024 : Herbarium of the Congolese Department of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Anna Safiatou Touré, non-couché collection no. 3, CFC Editions x Iselp BE
2022 : Article – Eveil du printemps of Hadrien Courcelles, l’Art même n°87 BE
2020 : Atoms, Heliographie Magazine n°3, Nantes, November 14, 2020 FR

website : www.climates.studio