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YANÉ
GANÉ

An Artist Center
& Research-creation site

by Awa Based in the Sine Saloum region, YANÉ GANÉ is a space dedicated to research-creation rooted in a rural context. Conceived as a site of encounter and transmission, it brings together artists, researchers, craftspeople and local community members through practices linked to ecology, craft, history and culture.

As a shape-shifting space, the project moves between artist-run center, archival site and gathering place, with a particular attention to regional cultures and transatlantic histories. Rooted in a territory marked by waterways, migration and agricultural knowledge, YANÉ GANÉ approaches the archive as a living process shaped through gestures, storytelling, material practices and collective memory.

Rather than separating artistic production from everyday life, the center understands creation as something embedded within lived environments and local systems of knowledge. Through residencies, the project seeks to cultivate forms of exchange grounded in slowness, observation and shared learning. Imagined as a space for rest and reflection, YANÉ GANÉ considers human and environmental concerns as part of the same continuum, fostering practices attentive to care, sustainability and interdependence.

YANÉ  GANÉ is currently under  its devellopement phase.