Hamedine Kane

Hamedine Kane is a Senegalese and Mauritanian artist and director, who lives and works between Brussels and Dakar. Through his practice, Kane frequents borders—not as signs and factors of impossibility, but as places of passage and transformation, serving as a central element in the conception of itinerant identity. After ten years of exile in Europe, his work now focuses on the themes of memory and heritage. This aspect of his practice is taking shape through the research project École des Mutants / The School of Mutants, in collaboration with Stéphane Verlet-Bottero. In his works, these themes intertwine with the past and the future, transcending and irrigating the limits of space and time. In 2020, Kane participated in the Taipei Biennial, the Casablanca Biennale, and various exhibitions as part of the Africa2020 season in France. His film The Blue House, which had its world premiere at IDFA in Amsterdam in November 2020, received a special mention from the jury.