When art is mixed with politics. The exhibition “Pacte Mali” was launched yesterday at Galerie Medina in Bamako. It will last a month in the Malian capital. The artists are exhibiting works that illustrate their greatest concern at the moment. And this while a revision of the constitution was announced exactly by the transitional authorities. An exhibition in the form of civic engagement.
With our special correspondent in Bamako, David Baché
About twenty artists, ten speakers, one goal: to ensure that all Malays apply their constitution and unite around it, as a common pact.
Boubacar Baba Tandina, visual artist from Timbuktu, shows “The Cycle of the Atonement”. “It represents the diversity we have at home. And then a repetition of the word Constitution. If the constitution is not consolidated and not understood, there will be no reconciliation and no peace. »What about the bike? “So that there is a direction for Mali to move forward.”
The project was initiated by the director of Medina Gallery, Igo Diarra, during the months of popular protest that preceded the military coup in August.
“The work is called ‘the shortage.’ that you need security. “For him, these are the country’s priorities: education, security.” The base, “he says.
The transitional authorities have promised that a new constitution will be proposed in the coming months through a referendum. The works in the Pacte Mali exhibition therefore appear as so many proposals for the preparation of the new basic Malian text.
The exhibition “Pacte Mali” will be shown in Galerie Medina in Bamako for another month.
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