Pap Souleye Fall is a Senegalese-American artist who explores the transmedia potential between mediums, including sculpture, installation, performance, cosplay, digital media, and comics. Their work is produced within the context of the African Diaspora. Being of two worlds, Fall delights in the ability to construct their own reality between the polarities of two widespread cultures. Using common, found, and repurposed materials, their multidisciplinary practice explores themes of speculative fiction, challenges the pretext of masculinity, Africanisms, and Afro-futurism.
Pap Souleye Fall, NIT, NITAAY GARAMBAM, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Blade Study, NY.
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Pap Souleye Fall will perform DATADATAPASSIVEDATADATADEADLIVEDATA Friday, October 3, 2025, 6:00 pm, in The ICA at MECA&D in conjunction with the ICA at MECA&D's exhibition opening, otherwise, on view October 3 - December 13, 2025.
Storytelling has long been a way for people to make sense of the world and find agency in the face of significant adversity. In otherwise, exhibiting artists utilize elements of fiction in their work, transforming real-life issues into something otherworldly and innovative. Some artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from specific sources such as science fiction, oral traditions, and mythologies, while others craft intricate narratives inspired by real-world histories. Collectively, the artists in otherwise explore the potential of fictional storytelling to reimagine and reclaim historical and contemporary oppressions, paving the way for bold new futures.
Funded by the generous support of the TD Charitable Foundation