01/01/2026
The end of one cycle, the beginning of another. As a new year opens, we are invited to pause, to look back as much as forward, and to return to our loved ones, our families, as what grounds us.
Few artistic practices give form to these reflections with such quiet intensity as that of Seyni Awa Camara.
Shaped by her lived experience of repeated failed pregnancies and loss, Seyni Awa Camaraโs sculptural practice places motherhood at its core, not as an idealized state, but as a space of endurance and symbolic regeneration. From this lived experience emerges a sculptural language in which Camara sculpts unglazed clay figures bearing multiple children, forming dense, vertical compositions that speak to attachment and continuity. These works articulate a vision of maternity and family shaped by deprivation and repetition, in which giving birth is displaced into artistic creation. In this way, sculpture becomes a reparative act, where life is carried, multiplied, and transformed through clay, echoing a continuous cycle of loss and renewal.
Born around 1945 in Senegal and recognised as a leading figure in contemporary ceramic practice, Seyni Awa Camaraโs sculptures form part of major international collections, including the , the , and the National Museum of Art Norway.
As the year begins, her work is currently on view at the (Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection, through 19 April 2026), and and in Spain, at the (Project a Black Planet, through 6 April 2026).
Artwork pictured above:
, Untitled
Fired Clay Terracotta Sculpture
42 1/8 x 16 7/8 in
107 x 43 cm
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