Amadou Camara Gueye was born in 1968 in Bignona, Senegal. He lives and works in Dakar in the popular district of Pikine, very present in his paintings. Through his artistic approach, Camara Gueye wants to “light up everything that is dark in life … I tell all the evils of society, so I am a storyteller, a street poet who lives only by his art”. He usually works on large formats, works with imposing compositions of which he says: “I have a spontaneous approach to the work to be done: the line of the drawing springs freely. Then it’s all about rebalancing.” Promoted from the National School of Fine Arts in Dakar in 1997, he has exhibited internationally since the year 2000 and nationally since 1993.