
The Citadel: a trilogy
- Publisher
- MACK
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-1-912339-93-8
- Specifications
- Three volumes
Sahel Gris: hardcover with accordion fold, 17 x 24 cm, 176 pages
At the Wall: two paperback volumes bound into a hardcover, 17 x 24 cm, 120 pages
Metropolis: hardcover with Japanese fold, 24 x 34.5 cm, 120 pages
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023
The story of an inner journey told in three movements, mapping a route through discovery, loss and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist. In 2007 Mame-Diarra Niang returned to Senegal to bury her father after years spent living in France. Her intimate interest in the notion of territory translates into a refracted representation of the landscapes she rediscovered on that visit. Collected here in an expansive and tactile three-part edition, a personal but analytic relationship with place emerges, in which city names and geographic coordinates dissolve and become as irrelevant as the visions imposed on them across history and today.