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Rackie Diankha

Femme Au Pouvoir, 2003
mixed media on canvas

A woman's strength is blurred in Senegal because society expects her to be soft and demure. Women are powerful inside, however, and in this work you see both aspects of woman, the soft side on the left and the powerful on the right.

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