Here is a samsara. A world. A whole life cycle at the point of pen and marker, full of beauty and pain. A story that is lived and narrated from the side of those who lick the honey from the razor’s edge.
Two Artist is, if we may be redundant, an artistic duo with a bifid heart. A viscera that beats and becomes big at the crossroads where the extensions of the battlefields of its components meet; Alage Bah + Consuegra Romero. Alage (Gambia, 1996), a tailor by vocation and training, also knows how to distill on paper the juices of that fiery punch that could only have been brought from Africa; a paradigm of essence and otherness at the same time. So it is no coincidence that in the series they produce together there are glimpses of mutual gratitude and an urgent demand for a radical change in Western ontological thinking.
Women, blackness, migrants, nature, animals, the marginal… are othernesses that Consuegra Romero (Cordoba, 1982) has been burning her body and heart since the beginning of her days. How to give them back the category of essential to these existences so rudely silenced? The answer emerges in gushes from the depths of Myrninerest, as the also endured Magde Gill would say. This is a deep groaning that struggles to come out and make itself present, a mysterious force that guides Consuegra’s hand, with a brutal stroke, to capture a cosmos that oozes beauty and truth. Beauty and truth that are also pain.