The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Khady Diene Faye, made a lightning visit on Saturday, December 7 to the old courthouse in Dakar, one of the main sites of the selection. She took the opportunity to visit the specialist in glass painting, Germaine Anta Gaye, whom Dak’art honored and whose exhibition will be remembered for its attraction and originality. Everyone is talking about it. Installed in Germaine Anta Gaye’s magnificent bed, the minister answered our questions exclusively.
The 25th edition of the biennial of contemporary African art in Dakar has taken place. After 4 intense and emotion-rich weeks, the curtains of Dak’art 2024 fell definitively this Saturday, December 7, to the great dismay of many young people who tried to access the old courthouse in vain until around 20 hours.
Seeing the young people gathered this afternoon in front of the courthouse until 7 p.m., the minister is encouraged. In front of our camera, she discusses the prospects that are emerging for this event given the enthusiasm and success of this edition.
The State could offer almost similar intermediate artistic events in a decentralized manner in the regions in order to get young people more interested in art. The great interest of young people in this biennial has marked more than one person, it is also the pretext for the authorities to consider doing more and better, as Minister Khady Diène Gaye explains.
In addition, Khady Diene Faye is receptive to the idea of extending the duration of this event which is historically one month. But given the exceptional mobilization of very young people until the last hours of the closure, the minister is not open to this idea.
And yet this event which should have been held in May was postponed for 6 months, raising fears of a fiasco both in the participation of the artists and the interest of the public. But paradoxically the bet was won and digital social networks were widely used.
