Statue in welded rebar and resin created by Ndary Lo in 2014.

From 1992 onwards, Ndary Lo began research into working with iron, culminating in his "Hommes qui marchent", long metal silhouettes which, with their slender women with blurred faces and scrap metal bellies filled with doll's heads, have won him numerous awards. These sculptures, entrusted to the Retour de voyage gallery by the artist's family, perfectly illustrate the need for us to move forward, and to move to discover new horizons. These walkers are both deeply rooted in the ground and, paradoxically, never stop moving forward. "Movement is the quest for the future, it opens the doors to tomorrow", said the artist in 1998. There is no fragility or vulnerability in these spindly figures; on the contrary, they are strength, dynamism and determination. This Marcheur, entitled "marcheur cambré", is a highly elegant work that caught our eye, and it's only logical that we should like to present it alongside the artist's other statues. The Retour De Voyage gallery had already exhibited the artist Ndary Lo in 2017 in an exhibition entitled "Noires Silhouettes", then in 2020 for the "Silent Walks" exhibition and again in 2022 "J'aime les arbres". We are delighted to be presenting it again and offering these "walkers" for sale, for the "Walking Man, Standing Woman" exhibition.

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