Dior Thiam
Dior Thiam is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Through painting, installation and photography she explores untold histories, otherness, exoticism and the specific historical knowledge held by social and individual bodies. Born to German and Senegalese parents and raised in Germany, she draws inspiration from historical events and occurrences, from poetry and prose as well as from personal experiences, which, in a process of aesthetic layering and interweaving, she arranges into new contextual meaning.
From 2012 to 2015, Dior studied philosophy and social sciences at the Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2015 she studies at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Leipzig, Berlin and Dakar.
“Art is my most constructive means to navigate the racialized “spaces“ to which colonial history has confined black female bodies. As such, it allows me to unveil suppressed, forgotten or yet unimagined realms of self-awareness and self-determination and to exhibit the reality of my body without having to perform it at the same time. I understand my artistic form as signs and symbols, as the letters to a language that must constantly be further developed, as the search for my most clear, honest and effective voice."
Dior Thiam
Dior Thiam is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Through painting, installation and photography she explores untold histories, otherness, exoticism and the specific historical knowledge held by social and individual bodies. Born to German and Senegalese parents and raised in Germany, she draws inspiration from historical events and occurrences, from poetry and prose as well as from personal experiences, which, in a process of aesthetic layering and interweaving, she arranges into new contextual meaning.
From 2012 to 2015, Dior studied philosophy and social sciences at the Humboldt University Berlin. Since 2015 she studies at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Leipzig, Berlin and Dakar.
“Art is my most constructive means to navigate the racialized “spaces“ to which colonial history has confined black female bodies. As such, it allows me to unveil suppressed, forgotten or yet unimagined realms of self-awareness and self-determination and to exhibit the reality of my body without having to perform it at the same time. I understand my artistic form as signs and symbols, as the letters to a language that must constantly be further developed, as the search for my most clear, honest and effective voice."