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Malick Sidibé

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Sun 30 Apr → Sun 11 Jun 1995
Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Happy club), 1963 1995
Malick Sidibé, Nuit de Noël (Happy-club), 1963 © Malick Sidibé, courtesy Galerie Magnin-A, Paris

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

Malick Sidibé is both witness and protagonist in changing African youth, torn between tradition and the emergence of fashion, music, and lifestyles inspired by the modern western world.

While making studio photographs, Malick Sidibé does many reportage pieces on young people’s leisure pursuits in the new state of Mali: parties, weddings, evenings where people dance and show off their clothes, bars, clubs where young people go to listen to pop music, rock’n’roll and soul, outings on the banks of the River Niger, and so on. 

"The most authentic thing is the face. So for me photography is the art that can best perpetuate its image. Man tried to imitate God through drawing, then photography came along and I think we’ve never invented anything better for perpetuating images. I believe in the power of the image". 

Malick Sidibé, 1995.

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