Anna Safiatou Touré • Gamanké Museum
Saturday 27 September /
Schedule
10:00 - 22:00
Anna Safiatou Touré is a French-Malinese artist with a diploma from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire and ENSAV La Cambre. She currently lives in Brussels.
Born in 1996 in Bamako, Anna received the Prix Médiatine in 2022, and from 2023 to 2024 she was supported by the Roger De Conynck Foundation.
Her work explores migration stories, navigating between silence and emptiness to reveal hidden narratives. Recently, she was nominated for the FOMU 2025.
Gamanké Museum
Gamanké Museum is a 30-minute immersive multimedia experience presented as a video game, available in English, French, and an invented language called Dgéba.
Supported by the Roger De Conynck Foundation, the project examines the representation of touristic Sub-Saharan African masks in museums. These masks are fictitious objects from an imagined land called Kanema, created to question the place of such artefacts within European institutions.Beyond its playful aspect, Gamanké Museum is a layered photographic project. It includes plaster prints taken from the back of the object — intentionally avoiding the face for symbolic reasons — offering an ironic opportunity to be “reborn” after several virtual deaths. Through immersive fiction and a fictional language that transcends linguistic boundaries, the game critically examines the museum space in a fresh and thought-provoking way.