Babacar POUYE was born in 1982 in Saint Louis. He has been teaching in Senegalese schools for over 10 years and is a self-taught visual artist. With a love for the colors of life and a passion for art since childhood, he began his career focusing on pencil portraits. His style is part of a futuristic and prophetic world that he often symbolizes with cowrie shells, which are both a currency and an emblem of fertility. His artistic approach advocates Africanization in modernity, hence the presence of masks, dances, and the use of various materials.

His main area of research focuses on the transmission of the energies that surround him. He throws himself wholeheartedly into his painting, embracing spontaneity and accident in his bursts of color. Driven by his instinct for plastic beauty, he is attuned to the chromatic vibrations that illuminate the visible, reshaping them into figurative and abstract forms in small or large formats. His work finds its rhythm in series, and this approach takes place like a mise en abyme in the ritual of the studio. His artistic canvas evokes a form of magic where the subject is inscribed in a memory. His background is composed of objects and represents a personal symbolism.

Using acrylic, his main medium, Babacar Pouye mixes techniques ranging from very dry to wet, delivering an original sensual atmosphere.