In honor of Women’s History Month, March 2021, aKAZ! ATL in collaboration with Gallery Miriam are thrilled to present ROOTS. An exhibit featuring Kiné Aw.

In this exhibit, Kiné Aw celebrates Senegalese women contributions to History, culture and Society. Women are the ROOTS of African society and foundation of society.

Kiné comes from a long line of Senegalese female creative geniuses going back to the novelist Mariama Ba and her novel So Long a Letter. Both Mariama Ba and Kine Aw graphically outline the tension between the traditional and the ‘modern’ for African women navigating their multiple lives in pluralistic settings and in many communities, each of which require a different skill set.

Painting on large canvases, Kine creates her perception of reality which consists of the universe of women in the Sahel: spare elegant shapes, beauty, tradition versus modernity, themes inspired by her own life as a woman.

“My work is a further reflection of my invisible inside that I try to externalize, and make it visible on my artistic medium, by my means of expression more or less composed of acrylic paint and tar on canvas.” Kine Aw

The Exhibit was from March 8 - April 30, 2021