Omar Ba

Omar Ba's work is characterized by its enigmatic nature and intense poeticism. Rather than adopting a didactic narrative, he seeks instead to express his subconscious and his symbolic interpretation of reality. The artist deals with themes such as chaos, destruction, and dictatorship, cloaking his political discourse in a veil of poetry through a pictorial language that is entirely his own, both fierce and delicate.

Omar Ba lives and works between Dakar, Geneva, Brussels, Paris, and New York. Divided between several continents, he develops a reflection born of constant hybridization, far from the stereotypes associated with his African roots. This hybridization is also found in his paintings, where organic touches and flamboyant colors coexist, mixing forms, techniques, and textures (acrylic, gouache, pencil, and even typex). Ba paints on a black background (on corrugated cardboard or canvas), thus asking the viewer to adapt literally and metaphorically to darkness.

His iconography, which is both politically and socially engaged, but also imbued with personal mythology, raises historical and timeless questions, while radiating a resolutely contemporary artistic message, which can be found in artists close to both surrealism and symbolism. Omar Ba denounces the chaos of the world with his brush.
Source: Wilde Gallery