A selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Bolol project conducted by Eva Diallo since 2018 on the trail of overland migration routes from Africa to Europe.
Eva Diallo graduated in photography from the Centre d'Enseignement Professionnel of Vevey in Switzerland and moved to Saint-Louis in Senegal in 2018, where she devoted her artistic research to the issue of illegal migration, drawing on her own family history and particularly that of two of her cousins who left Senegal for Italy and France. The numerous trips made by the artist to Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and all around West Africa in the footsteps of her relatives give shape to a series of photographs in progress divided by chapter: Bolol. At each stage, the artist immerses herself in the place to understand its functioning and to capture its atmosphere.
Eva Diallo (born 1996 in Lausanne, Switzerland, lives and works in Dakar, Senegal) is a Swiss-Senegalese photographer. Her visual narratives develop around an aesthetic of the fragment and the anecdote. The artist operates on the fringes of the subject, capturing moments and details that contribute to a sensitive understanding of the aesthetic issues at stake. Faced with the question of how to represent an experience as complex as migration, Eva Diallo chooses to operate on the borderline between art and documentary. Her serial work weaves webs of meaning that echo from one work to the next, requiring us to take the time to read what we see. Eva Diallo prefers the poetic exercise of deciphering to the hasty consumption of images often generated around these topical subjects, as an incitement to the imagination, which alone is capable of grasping the multiple facets of our contemporary experiences with richness and far from clichés.
