desirePlate 036 · Dakar, Senegal

African Renaissance Monument

The tallest statue in Africa, a family pointing out of a hill, a nation's argument with scale.

2010 · Pierre Goudiaby Atepa / Mansudae · Africa

The chamber score

Sabar accompaniment

Wolof traditional · Senegal

Dakar's pulse, older than the monument.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The 52-metre bronze monument overlooking Dakar.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct African Renaissance Monument through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if African Renaissance Monument was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.