Ladji Diaby and Mati Diop in conversation
Monday 11 May 2026 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free on booking
Talk in french
To mark his exhibition Who's Gonna Save The World?, Ladji Diaby has invited filmmaker Mati Diop to join him for a conversation about the forms of resistance that run through their work.
This talk offers an opportunity to reflect on the origins of the exhibition and the stories that inform their artistic practices.
His work explores the cultural, spiritual, and liberating dimensions of personal and collective narratives.
Ladji Diaby’s work was recently presented in his first institutional solo exhibition, No one has ever called their child hunger, at Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (2024–2025). His work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions: Partenaires Particulaires: SUPPORTS, SURFACES, DISSÉMINATION at Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul de Vence (2025), as well as in Autohistorias at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2024), It was a hot day, a day that was blue all through at Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris (2024), and Gold Plated Prophecies at Forde Art Centre, Geneva (2023). Previous exhibitions include Is Something Missing? at FRAC Corse (2023), Target Group at Braunsfelder, Cologne (2023), the DNA program FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET at Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023), Les Urbaines at Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (2022), and DAHABIYY at 35.37, Paris (2022).
In 2024, he took part in a collective residency at Villa Medici in Rome, invited by the collective Les Chichas de la Pensée.
His work is currently on display in Felicità 2025 at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, which brings together the 24 artists who obtained their national higher diploma in visual arts with honors in 2025 (until February 1, 2026).
With her debut feature film Atlantique (2019), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by Dahomey (2024), winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, she has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in international auteur cinema and plays an active role in shaping new perspectives within African and diaspora cinema.
Her politically engaged cinema transcends the boundaries between genres and formats, reflecting her dual identity and a proudly embraced creolity.
By founding the production company Fanta Sy, based in Dakar, she continues her artistic commitment to the African continent.