Delphine Diallo

Delphine Diallo is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer. Born into a French-Senegalese creative family, Diallo’s first expressions of artistry were in music, graphic design, and artistic direction. An observer of photography’s traditional gaze on women’s bodies, Diallo made it her mission to become a key actor in the deconstruction of its sexist and racist legacy. Since 2014, Diallo has been creating a visual language that would empower herself and the women who would become her protagonists and heroines. Recently, she has been exploring the power and potential of self-portraiture, turning mental pictures — or lucid dreams — into carefully crafted mises-en-scène. Working mainly in digital and analogue photography, Diallo explores the expansion of her tools via AI, drawing, and found imagery.

From Empire State of Crypto Art, September 2023