ABOUT DELPHINE DIALLO
Based in Brooklyn (NY), visual artist and photographer Delphine Diallo has French and Senegalese roots. Diallo is renowned for combining activism and art to empower women and cultural minorities with her provoking visual artworks.
Initially Delphine worked as a motion effect artist, graphic designer, and video editor for seven years. After graduating from the Academie Charpentier School of Visual Arts in Paris in 1999, Delphine moved to New York in 2008. In those years, artist and photographer Peter Beard, impressed by Diallo’s creativity and genuine artworks, wanted her to collaborate with the Pirelli calendar in Botswana.
Delphine Diallo explores mythology, anthropology, science, and religion. She takes advantage of the remote places her works bring her to, as she wants to spend intimate time with her subjects. Diallo indeed aims at eradicating all the hyper-structures that hide her subjects’ real souls and intentions. “We are in constant search for wonder and growth. I see art as a vessel to express consciousness and diffuse wisdom, enlightenment, fear, beauty, ugliness, faith, strength, fearless, universal matter”, she says in her Bio.
VISION AND TECHNIQUE
Delphine Diallo uses analog and digital photography with collage techniques and continuously explores new mediums. Through this, she wants to build a universal language made of art and consciousness; that’s why Delphine believes that artists shall connect by sharing and learning new ideas.
Today Delphine Diallo is motivated to create new narratives by empowering black women to expand new awareness.
The woman’s body should be one of the most respectable places on earth, she declares. “Without her, we will not be born, nor either feeling unconditional love,” Delphine says.
Delphine Diallo’s Mission
Since the patriarchal society conceived the women’s body as an object for the workforce and leisure, still black women had no choice but to go on with their life. For this, Diallo focuses on the resiliency of many black women throughout human history.
Delphine Diallo has a big game-changing mission: to divulge new versions of the black female stereotype by modeling it with new archetypes.
She will depict the explorer, the queen, the goddess, the innocent, the sage, the mother, the caregiver, the lover, the warrior, etc. She says: “The divine feminine within all of us comes through our families and ancestors, and one shouldn’t oppress it.”
Go here to visit her website.
