Alassan Diawara

Alassan Diawara is a Belgian artist and photographer, living and working in Paris since 2019. He discovered photography at an introductory workshop during his communication studies in Brussels. In 2012, he did his first internship with Malick Sidibé in Bamako. His penchant for research has led him to question the regime of representation and the place of categories and canonical figures within art history and pop culture. His aesthetic reflection is based on documentary images, and while he refuses to be confined to this genre, everyday subjects and objects occupy a central place in his work. He was one of the winners of the 2020 photographic commission “Regards du Grand Paris”, sponsored by the Ateliers Médicis and the Centre national des arts plastiques, which led to a multi-site exhibition and a collective publication. In 2022, during his “Transat” research residency at the Clinique FSEF in Neufmoutiers (77), he led photographic workshops with a group of patients. Since January 2023, he has benefited from a creative grant from the association “Rêve” created by the DREAM architecture agency / Dimitri Roussel, in partnership with Ateliers Médicis. Alassan Diawara was a resident in the 1^st promotion of Artagon Pantin (2022-2023).