Mame-Diarra Niang was born in 1982, in Lyon, France and lives in Paris. She is a self-taught artist and photographer. Her work explores the concept of the ‘plasticity of territory’. Niang’s first mid-career survey, Self as a Forgotten Monument, currently takes place at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, South Africa. Previous solo shows include Sama Guent Guii, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2022); The Citadel: a trilogy | Call me when you get there at Galeria Lume, São Paulo (2021); Léthé, as part of Rhe, at Stevenson Amsterdam (2021) and Call Me When You Get There, Cape Town (2020); Black Hole, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2017), and At the Wall, Stevenson, Johannesburg (2014).