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| Documentary | dv | color | 52'0'' | Senegal | 2008 |
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© Baba Sarr
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Among the Sereres, the second biggest ethnic group in Senegal, the life of the individual is paced by important events which confer on him his stature within the community.
Initiation is called “Ndout” in Serere - it’s a paramount means of education for the men and marks the passage into adulthood for the boys.
It takes place every ten years and is done in the bush. Among women, this same ceremony is done at the time of their marriage and finally the bride, accompanied by the initiated young women of her district, collect the linen from the elders of the village, then they wash in a backwater, far from any spectators. This ritual is done following a long procession accompanied by initiatory songs.
Arfang Sarr-Crao is one of the up and coming artists from the Dakar scene of visual arts.
A graduate in sciences (mathematical, physics, chemistry and natural science), he turns his back on the faculty of science of the University Sheik Anta Diop of Dakar (Senegal) to devote himself to painting and literary creation. In as far as being a self-educated plastics technician, he has taken part in several biennial Dak' Art and many exhibitions in Senegal and abroad.
Arfang is also a prize winner of the Great Price Birago Diop of poetry (2004), with his first collection “Litany for the hair of Fadima”, published in the Bush Fire Editions.
An all round artist, he carries the banner of a rising generation of Senegalese artists set on new technologies, Arfang chose very early on a mixture of the kind of tools for his creations through an experimental step which combines visual arts, cinema, photography and literature.
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