Born and based in Dakar, Cheikha Bamba lives in Brussels where he teaches at ERG. He founded SIGIL in 2004 and is the artistic director of Espace Médina, an independent space at the heart of the city’s cultural life. For MAD Parcours, Cheikha enters Casual/Tease, the Brussels chapter of The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War at Cloud Seven, presenting Sous le regard de la jupe de ma mère… un autre regard, a monumental dress installation born from the experience of African mothers who have had to send their young children to war. Visitors are invited to put their heads beneath an enormous skirt and return, for a moment, to a very basic childhood memory: hiding beneath our mother’s dress, perhaps the first shelter we ever knew. But the dress is full of holes shaped like faces. What...