Pap Souleye Fall
︎︎︎ JUMP BACK TO MAY BRINGS FLOWERS uses world-building, speculative fiction, and gameplay as components that come together
to create immersive settings. His work questions how systems of power condition reality and
how black diasporas navigate, reimagine, and refigure them in order to adapt. His practice
necessitates improvisation, iteration, and malleable structures. Using methods like weaving and
sewing to thread together and bind the universes, these materials allow Fall to create strategies
and backdrops for joy and immersive experiences. “Apple of My Eyes” is a collaged object,
weaved and sewn together using materials from his personal archive.
Apple of my Eye, 2022
Collected archive, thread, collage
5 by 5 in
12.7 by 12.7 cm
(b. 1994) is a Senegalese-American artist who explores the transmedia potentials of sculpture, installation, performance, cosplay, digital media, and comics. Much of his work reflects his growing up within the Diaspora. Being of two worlds, Fall realized that, through art, he had the ability to construct his own worlds. As such, he became fascinated with the way art could be embedded in everyday life, activating common materials and encounters to explore themes such as diaspora, post-apocalypse, utopia, identity, notions of masculinity, Africanisms, and Afro-futurism. He graduated from the University of the Arts with a BFA in 2017 and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2022. He is a recipient of the Dedalus Foundation Emerging Artist Grant for 2022. His work has also been featured at the Houseguest Gallery, Louisville; the Yale Art Gallery, New Haven; and the Waru Studio, Dakar.