Artist Profile
Lebachart
Visual artist from Dakar
El Bachir Diouf (1991), known as Lebachart, is a visual artist from Dakar where he lives and works. A graduate of the National School of Arts Senegal. With his collages of oil, pastel and acrylic paint Diouf creates alienating worlds where men and fish play the leading role. Diouf has had a fascination for the underwater world since childhood: ‘I watched documentaries and collected encyclopedias about marine life. He uses the aquatic world as a mirror projected in the face of our drifting humanity to describe people devoid of dignity, wisdom, ethics, civic-mindedness.