BAMANA DRAMANE is a visual artist who lives and works in Bamako, Mali. His work falls within the realm of social figuration, where people, the street, and collective memory take center stage.
“Transforming waste into beauty means transforming the way we view the world.”
The artist creates using materials salvaged primarily from plastic and other waste, which he transforms into meaningful visual elements. This practice of recycling is not only an ecological gesture but also a symbolic act of repair and rebirth.
Drawing inspiration from everyday gestures, simple interactions, urban architecture, and the city’s color palettes, Bamana Dramane develops a practice that blends painting, collage, assemblage, and weaving.
Through his works, he explores the notion of living together, the fragility of our social bonds, and the need for renewed solidarity by offering a poetic interpretation of reality, where art becomes a space for dialogue, memory, and reconstruction.
This exhibition invites us to reconnect with peaceful living, simplicity, and solidarity, within a social cohesion that must be reinvented.
