VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
Invisible giants
Artist: Élise Fitte-Duval
Presented by : Kuumbati
in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation
May attention finally be paid to these Humans who know how to tame almost everything.
Let light be shed on these special Jambars, who have remained invisible to our eyes for too long. To these women. Simply.
In an ideal world, they would have needed less than a tenth, if not a hundredth, to shine with their outstanding achievements.
However, in this world we live in, against the odds, through the ignominy of war and weapons, hardship and pain, they have had to generate more than sons and daughters for our nation, but also dreams, if not build edifices from scratch.
Invisible indeed, but immeasurable in their dignity, courage, humanism, faith, resilience and self-sacrifice, resilience, self-sacrifice… In short, all the things they needed in tonnes and a hundredfold to accomplish the gigantic things they made possible and real, despite everything they lacked.
We had to ensure that they were timeless, but more importantly, existing, now visible and therefore no longer translucent against the nothingness and occasional forgetfulness of our memories, all of us.
They tell their story with modesty, but also with pride. They delivered with ease these parts of their multiple stories of plural life that embarrassment will surely have made them veil.
"INVISIBLE GIANTS EXHIBITION" by Élise Fitte-Duval
Born in Martinique, Élise Fitte-Duval has lived and worked in Senegal for the past twenty years. She graduated from the École d’Arts Plastiques de la Martinique (DNAP, 1986) and from the École Nationale Supérieure de Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 1996, specializing in photography. She pursues a narrative form of photographic research. She was awarded the Casa Africa prize for a woman photographer at the Rencontres Photographiques de Bamako 2011. Until 2018, Élise Fitte-Duval was editorial photographer at Panapress, a pan-African news agency based in Dakar.
All works are reproduced with the kind permission of the artist and are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
This project is co-financed by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the NGO Africans Rising.