SAMA DEUK YAAY // MY MOTHERS LAND
2024
SAMA DEUK YAAY // MY MOTHERS LAND is an autobiographical project in which Mouminatou explores her memories of leaving Senegal as a child and making a new home in America. She uses bright colors and symbolic imagery to evoke girlhood and center childlike perspectives of migration, home-making, and the comfort of the natural environment across continents.
THE GIRL WHO FLEW FROM DAKAR 93cm x 150cm
GONNA MAKE THIS GARDEN GROW 52cm x 60cm
SWEET MAGNOLIA 130cm x 160cm
I LOST MY FATHERs TOUNGE 50cm x 60cm
FIRST PARTITION 80cm x 90cm
HENNA FINGERs and HENNA TOEs 80cm x 92cm
OCTOPUS GIRL 80cm X 90cm
MAMAs LITTLE LOVE 66cm x 86cm
MY SONG LADY TO BUGs 54cm x 65cm