Collage painting Mystic in Senegalese Wrestling 2016

Artist: Djibril Fall Senegal

Stretched oil on canvas and collage

Height: 21 inches

Width: 29 inches

Description:

Laamb in Wolof is Senegalese wrestling.

Laamb represents an opportunity for a man to be plucked from obscurity and to be put on a platform that makes him a

nationally known name.

Both wrestlers spent months preparing their bodies for the combat, training hours a day at local facilities and abroad, where they have access to better equipment. But many believe that bouts are won and lost on the spiritual plane.

“The most important preparations are made in the home of the marabout,” in which the gris- gris containing Koranic verses, the baths infused with protective bark from the local baobab tree and other elements are made.