Papa Samba Ndiaye questions the evolution of beauty criteria through the makeup and braids of African women and more particularly Fulani women. The ethnological scarifications long practiced by certain African tribes to signify the transition from childhood to adulthood are disappearing and giving way to superpositions of several layers and palettes of makeup. Globalization and robotization are transforming African women.

The artist notices a loss of value which manifests itself in his paintings by a pixelation of the image of the woman, an effect of dispersion, of explosion of pixels. Each pixel plate alludes to the loss of cultural values and social disorder. The artist focuses on “the revaluation of everything that loses its value in order to start again with oneself”. He becomes the master builder of a Kintsugi of exploded pixels which transforms into beauty and repairs the social order. The scars are sublimated, they show us how far we have come.