Baya, femmes en leur jardin

Baya, women in their garden will offer new insight into the “Baya case” within a postcolonial studies perspective, based on an in-depth exploration of its archival sources. How did this unschooled girl – like 98% of indigenous girls of her generation – who endured suffering and violence, become this Baya able to master the language of shapes and colors, to create both a beautiful and harmonious style and world where radiant, happy women dwell in their own Garden of Eden, surrounded by birds, butterflies and musical instruments, and at just sixteen, rise to the height of dazzling fame among Parisian writers, artists, and art lovers, even appearing in a double-page spread in Vogue magazine in February 1948 (written by Edmonde Charles-Roux)?