Alioune Thiam (SN, 1993)
Residency period: October-December 2025
Based in Dakar, Alioune Thiam is a Senegalese video artist whose work bridges art, technology, and African oral traditions. Through immersive and interactive installations that combine projection mapping, animation, and sound, he explores memory, identity, and storytelling. His practice examines the impact of digital technology on Senegalese and African cultures, merging innovation with cultural memory to create participatory, poetic, and sensorial experiences.
His work has been presented at the Dakar Biennale and developed through several international residencies in France, including at Les Dominicains de Haute-Alsace, where he became the first Senegalese artist in residency in 2022, and Abbaye de Noirlac. In 2023, he presented his first solo exhibition, Stubbornness: Artist I Became, at the Théodore-Monod Museum in Dakar.
At La Becque, Alioune Thiam will develop Interactive Memories – Olympic Echoes, an immersive and participatory installation that reimagines the African talking drum Tama as a conduit between ancestral memory and contemporary Olympic heritage. Positioned at the crossroads of sport, sound, and storytelling, the project takes the form of a large tactile mural activated by zones of conductive paint. Each gesture from visitors will trigger layered audiovisual responses—voices of the Tama, Olympic moments reframed through African oral traditions, and augmented reality elements that revive forgotten sporting stories—transforming the installation into a collective space of memory and re-enchantment.
Alioune Thiam’s residency at La Becque is part of the Olympic Heritage | Artists in Residence program, organized by the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum in Doha and the Olympic Museum, located in Lausanne, Switzerland.