With the title La Sagesse des lianes, the PAV– Parco Arte Vivente is pleased to announce the opening of Binta Diaw's solo exhibition curated by Marco Scotini. Following the solo exhibitions of Navjot Altaf, Arahmaiani, Regina Jose Galindo, Binta Diaw's exhibition is a further focus on the relationship between nature and feminine thought in the current moment.

The exhibition takes its title from the plant element of the liana in a poetic and political form: a climbing plant that twists and resists the elements, capable of opening unexpected paths and building new vital alliances with other plants in the surrounding environment. Diaw draws inspiration from the traditions of Afro-descendant women and diasporic identities to address current issues: this violent and living memory concerns the survival of all in an ecosystem now on the brink of collapse.

Born in Milan to Senegalese parents in 1995, Diaw has developed a research that intertwines ecology, black feminism, and diasporic memory, placing at the center of her work the relationship between body, nature, and colonial history. Diaw's artistic practice deploys a strong symbolic and iconographic baggage rooted in her origins as a black woman artist within the Eurocentric cultural system, configured through diverse geographies and visual references, at the intersection of stories and latitudes that may seem poles apart. She uses materials ranging from organic to artificial: earth as a reconnecting element to the natural world and synthetic hair, used by African women as extensions of their hair, symbolizing beauty and cultural identity.

At the heart of the exhibition is the reflection on the diasporic and collective body as a site of resistance and alliance with the living. Just as lianas never grow isolated but find support and possibilities of ascent only by intertwining with other plants, the memory of the African diaspora is narrated as a fabric of connections, solidarity, and care practices. The relationship with nature becomes a political space, a relational territory, and an archive of ancestral knowledge that opposes the extractivist logic of the colonial plantation.