A solo exhibition by

Djibril Drame

"More True Than Fact" is a retrospective exhibition that explores the themes and concepts articulated in the works of Senegalese photographer Djibril Drame. The exhibition draws together key elements of the lived experiences explored and the narratives articulated over the course of Drame's 15 year career to present his particular vision for the future of African people. Natural elements, scenes, and customs of senegalese culture are presented and positioned to aid Drame in articulating his vision for the future. 

By encouraging a true and rich (re)connection with emotion, humanity and mortality, a foundation is healed. It is with that new foundation that we can explore the interiority of self. In community, Drame reminds us that we can redefine and reveal our sacred interiors through the ornamented presentations of our bodies. With the strengthened and flamboyant versions of ourselves, he urges us to engage in the final exchange: stripping the distractions of denigrating western concepts that have stolen, killed, and destroyed who we know ourselves to be.  

Although the future we are attempting to build is merely a figment of our imaginations, not yet intelligible through our ways of knowing, the momentousness of our freedom makes every vision constructed more true than fact.