Pap Souleye Fall
︎︎︎ JUMP BACK TO APRIL ARTISTSI make videos, sculptures, sounds, paintings and situations that consider feeling and body knowledge as agents of escapism. I use methods found in cosplaying like world-building, speculative fiction and gameplay as components that come together to create immersive settings. My work questions how systems of power condition reality and how black diasporas navigate, reimagine, and refigure them in order to adapt. My practice necessitates improvisation, iteration, and malleable structures. I work with videos on monitors, cardboard, clothing and wood that are frequently salvaged or recycled. I use methods like weaving and sewing to thread together and bind the universes I combine. These materials allow me to create strategies and backdrops for joy and immersive experiences. I echo the virtual and the physical as a way to source the black imaginary.
CON 1, 2023
Family Suitcase, cardboard, brown paper bag,
thread, foam, wood, collected archive
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(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.