RAW Material Company invites you to a presentation of the work of artist Sophie Le Hire on Friday, February 14th 2020 at 6pm.

Sophie Le Hire will share her creative process and, show for the first time in Dakar, her latest work PROTESTE! which is a piece of "video art about the daily struggle of street workers in Senegal." She will be in conversation with art critic and curator Massamba Mbaye.

About Sophie Le Hire 

Sophie Le Hire is an artist of French origin born in 1984 in Paris. She is a multidisciplinary artist, as well as an illustrator and teacher and has been living in Dakar since 2016. She started her exploration into artistic and pedagogical practices in Latin America in 2008, for two years in Mexico. Her practice feeds off her environment, artisitc collaborations with museums, artists and institutions for children. Her creations are an exploration of the human being in their essence and their relation to the world. Sophie Le Hire uses different media like video, drawing, performance, installation, sound design and writing to share what she wishes to share, denounce and suggest about the human being. This vast exploration brings her to develop the essence of her approach: "creative listening."

About Massamba Mbaye

Massamba Mbaye is an art critic, curator and consultant. Historian of theories of communication, he is specialized in cybernetics. As a graduate of strategic marketing and communication he teaches these specialties. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the current Managing Director of DMedia group. He has been a member of the editorial board of Afrik'Arts, an international visual arts magazine edited by the Dakar Biennale and has been coordinating Dak'art's communication since 2016. He is also a member of the Orientation Committee of Dak'art and is the author of several books on visual arts in Senegal.