Mohamadou N'DOYE (N'doye Douts) is a Senegalese artist born in 1973. He is part of the prestigious group of renowned artists trained at the National School of Arts in Dakar, from which he graduated with Honors in 1999, after an impressive curriculum. Douts quickly distinguished himself in various workshops and biennials and during the screening of his short film "Train-Train Medina", which evokes the construction and fragile deconstruction of a city on the sand. He is also a sculptor but painting remains his favorite discipline. The artist has gained international recognition after participating in several prestigious residencies in France; recognition consecrated by his participation in the "Africa Remix" exhibition at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) in 2005. His works are exhibited worldwide, notably in the United States, Europe, South Africa and Korea.
His painting - which could be described as naive and colorful - is inspired by his Dakar neighborhood, the Medina, a veritable labyrinth of disorderly streets where all types of vehicles circulate. In this environment, the streets are lined with wires on which to dry clothes and telephone antennas reaching to the sky. The houses seem tangled, piles of debris litter the ground, showing the surrounding poverty of the neighborhood built with rudimentary materials such as corrugated iron, cardboard, laterite,.... The chaos he depicts illustrates the ingenuity of man living in soulless cities.
From the top of the building where his studio is located, the artist is a silent observer who listens and feels the living city by recording its soul and vibrations. The whirlwind of the city and the mixture of multiple cultures in an urban environment have often challenged him: "How do people live in such neighborhoods" ? And it is precisely to this question that his work tries to answer: his painting explores and transfigures these varied entanglements of forms, materials and colors, the reciprocal contaminations of architecture and life where the lines surrounding the city stretch and seem to float in space.