Pap Souleye Fall makes things to show and sell, like hats and shirts. Sometimes he makes things for himself, like the body suit he wore to our interview.
The artist has a particular way of making clothing for himself that involves a kind of ritual of sewing himself in and ripping out the stitches to get himself out and then re-stitching himself back in.
He showed me his toes, individually delineated in his suit, and as he spoke it seemed to me the art suit was part skin and part religious garb, the latter, filled with deep personal meaning. The young artist is also playful in his approach to making things, and he’s serious about returning to his home country of Senegal to start an art center, post graduation from University of the Arts in 2017.
