Omar Victor Diop is one of the artists represented (by Magnin-A, Paris) on the 1: 54, Contemporary African Art Fair in Brooklyn, May 15 until May 17.
Frédéric Douglass, Diaspora Series, 2015.
About:
Omar Victor Diop (1980, Dakar, Senegal) developed an interest for photography and design as a means to capture the diversity of modern African societies and cultures. In addition to his more conceptual studio portraits, Diop’s corpus of work includes fashion and advertising photography, which he often integrates with other forms, such as costume design and fashion styling. This is particularly visible in his series Studio des Vanité, in which he follows his research between photography and design, with a strong influence of the historical African portraitists.
Dom Nicolau, Diaspora Series, 2015.
Following the success of his first conceptual project Fashion 2112, le Futur du Beau, which was featured at the Pan African Exhibition of the African Biennale of Photography of 2011 in Bamako (Rencontres de Bamako), Diop was encouraged to end his career in Corporate Communications and dedicate his efforts to photography.
Jean-Baptiste Belley, 2015
His latest series presented at 1:54, entitled Diaspora, is a time travel. It is a journey that takes its starting point in the present with the issue of immigration of Africans in Europe and their place in European society. Diop forces us to reconsider our perception of history by highlighting notable Africans living in Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth century. The integration of elements of football, weaves the links between past and present and question the position of African today.
Juan de Pareja, Diaspora Series, 2015.
Don Miguel de Castro, Diaspora Series, 2015.
Courtesy: Magnin-A, Paris
Copyright: the artist