The Citadel: a trilogy First Book Award Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive

Drawing from Lange’s extensive archive

made with colour film

Whitney Museum of American Art

She has written about New Deal FSA photographers—particularly Dorothea Lange

to a local race track where she watched Astoria Chas work on his car

The Citadel: a trilogy First Book Award Drawing from Lange’s extensive archiveThe Citadel is the story of an inner journey, told in three movements. It maps a route through discovery, loss, and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist. In 2007, Mame Diarra Niang returned to Senegal to bury her father after spending years away living in France. Her intimate interest in the notion of territory translates into a refracted representation of the landscapes she rediscovered on this visit. The places before