Samira Fall – MOWAA Listening Sessions Call and Response

Project Title:
Fatou

Project Description:
This piece is a spoken word performance that reflects on oral memory and the invisible figures who carry knowledge outside institutional archives. Through the figure of “Fatou,” it explores transmission, loss, and the absence of certain voices in formal systems of preservation.

It questions what deserves to be archived and who gets to decide, while challenging the notions of both the museum and “African art” within a globalized context.

It dreams of a museum that is no longer a fixed space of authority, but a living, embodied, and shared space - carried by voices, bodies, and everyday acts of transmission. A space that exists everywhere, for everyone.

Samira Fall is a Senegalese writer, cultural entrepreneur, and spoken word artist whose work explores memory, identity, and social realities through poetry and performance. Rooted in oral traditions and contemporary expression, her practice engages with themes of transmission, invisibility, intimacy and feminist perspectives, particularly centered on women’s voices, lived experiences, and collective narratives. She also facilitates creative workshops with young people, using poetry as tools for expression, empowerment, and collective reflection.