Baya, femmes en leur jardin

Baya. Femmes en leur Jardin will shed new light on the "Baya case" from a postcolonial perspective, based on an exploration of the archives. How did this young, unschooled girl (like 98% of "native" girls of her generation), who experienced suffering and violence, become, at the end of the colonial period, this Baya mastering the language of shapes and colors and creating a beautiful, harmonious style and world of sublime, happy women in their Garden of Eden, surrounded by birds, butterflies and musical instruments, and propelled from the age of 16 to the pinnacle of notoriety, dazzling Parisian writers, artists and art lovers and the subject of a double-page spread (written by Edmonde Charles-Roux) in Vogue magazine in February 1948?