By RFIPosted on 07-12-2019Modified on 07-12-2019 at 17:05

To celebrate its first year of existence, the museum of black civilizations in Dakar hosts a traveling pan-African exhibition that brings together some thirty contemporary African artists among the most international on the international scene, but often poorly known on the continent. Entitled Ready me your dream, the exhibition is to see until the end of January.

A caravan of the leading art makes stop at the Museum of Black Civilizations of Dakar. With 33 artists from the finest of contemporary African art, the exhibition Lend Me Your Dream is a crazy project born in Ségou in Mali of a meeting and an artistic friendship between a Moroccan gallerist and African artists.

At the table, the observation is the same. Malian Abdoulaye Konaté , Cameroonian Barthélémy Toguo or South African William Kentridge are exhibited in the world's leading museums. Western galleries are doing their rating. But on the continent, their fame is not as lively. In the meantime, the Moroccan Foundation for the Development of Contemporary African Culture was born. The project was launched in Casablanca last June.

" African excellence"

" We think that internationally, it should not only say outside Africa. There is an intra-African circuit that must be created and generated , explains Ivorian Yacouba Konaté , curator of the exhibition Lend Me Your Dream . We think that every time we have the opportunity to show the people as close as possible what we will quickly call "African excellence" , it's good for the morale, people will come to see, and it's is good for cultivating the self-esteem of Africans . "

Show works to the greatest number on the continent but also prove that the Sahara can be a bridge. The works have traveled. The conditions of conservation and insurance have been respected. The budget of the Dakar stage 200 000 euros.

" This project has required significant budgets and we have used companies that have sponsored the event and production and we make calls for sponsorship for each step ," says Fihr Kettani, Secretary General of the Foundation. We hope to convince more . " If all is well, the Lend Me Your Dream exhibition will be a milestone in the coming months in Abidjan, Lagos, Addis Ababa, Cape Town and Marrakech.

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