Binta Diaw

Binta Diaw (Milan, 1995) is an Italian-Senegalese visual artist working on an international scale. Raised between Italy and Senegal, she studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and at the École d’Art et de Design in Grenoble. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, video, photography, and performance, weaving together languages and materials — soil, ropes, synthetic hair, plaster, or rolled-up flags — to create works that center on the viewer’s physical and sensory experience. Her research engages with themes such as migration, diasporic identity, belonging, and gender, while drawing on Afro-diasporic, intersectional, and feminist perspectives. Diaw’s work positions itself as a critical act against the dominant Eurocentric gaze, exploring the many layers of identity: her own, as a Black woman in a Europeanized context, and the collective one of a continent shaped by entangled histories, memories, and geographies in dialogue and conflict. Through her practice, she gives voice to marginalized narratives and fosters a more inclusive and plural understanding of the present. Her works have been exhibited in prominent institutions and biennials, including MAXXI, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Trussardi, Museo Madre, Berlin Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, Gwangju Biennale, Castello di Rivoli, and Bamako Encounters.