Synthesis Curated for Youssouf Fofana

Synthesis Curated for Youssouf FofanaLaunching ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics to coincide with an immersive expo organised by professional footballer Youssouf Fofana, this project explores the African diaspora in the citys 18th arrondissement, in particular creatives connected to Senegal and West Africa, looking at how sport and shared culture can create community. From the football matches at Square Leon, where aunties sell their crafts and foods to onlookers, to Senegalese textile

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motherhood

and then parents in their turn

scientists

will societies and sophisticated systems of control

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Shashin Jidai editor Akira Hasegawa invited Moriyama to contribute photographs to each issue of the magazine

when the internet was a place you built with your friends and the only in-game purchases were pizza deliveries

I immediately wanted to translate this definition into images

such as the Burning House motif and Untitled (Genet

55 tritone plates on uncoated paper

bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself