Noyyig Dëkk Bi

2024

A collaboration with Mamadou Boye Diallo presented as an installation during Partcours and OFF Dakar Biennale 2024, in Dakar, Senegal.  Supported by Pro Helvetia Johannesburg and La Ville de Lausanne.

The project at the crossroad of art and design is built around the local craft of smelting recycled aluminium cans in sand moulds.

The co-creation project, Noyyig Dëkk Bi, is made of a team of two people: Noemi Niederhauser, an artist and designer based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Mamadou Boye Diallo, a curator, and Activist for the accessibility of art for all, based in Dakar, Senegal.

Noyyig Dëkk Bi, means: pulsation of the city, in Wolof. It is a project at the crossroad of art and design that steams from our research, in Dakar, around the local craft of smelting recycled aluminium cans in sand moulds to make design object and everyday utensils.

Through the development of a short film and a series of aluminium casted design elements; Noyyig Dëkk Bi. aims to function as an ode to this particular way of recycling waste and to the people behind it. The gestures, the skills, the hidden processes, the craftsmen and the stories of the objects are at the core of Noyyig Dëkk Bi.

Hence, the various designed elements and the short film form an art installation that traces the historical and geographic journey of this process, woven together with more intimate and personal stories around it.

Thank you Pro helvetia Johannesburg and La Ville de Lausanne