Artist Bio — Diallo D. Traoré

I’ve always been drawn to circles and recursive forms. They showed up early in my sketchbooks and later in my research into how memories repeat, shift, and return across diasporic experience. A lot of my pieces use loops of sound, image, gesture to explore that motion, the feeling that what we carry comes back to us, but never exactly the same.

I work across mixed media, watercolour, acrylic, and digital or experimental processes. Sometimes I introduce small technological “errors” or bring in fragments from personal and collective archives. Those interruptions create a kind of spiraling space, like memory catching on itself.

My installations try to hold the tension between the physical and the digital, the intimate and the shared. For me, identity isn’t fixed; it’s something that keeps rewriting itself, encore et encore.

-Artist's Statement

About the Artist

Diallo D. Traoré (b. Bamako, Mali) is a Montreal-based intermedia artist whose work investigates migration, memory, and the cyclical nature of cultural inheritance. Traoré is currently completing his Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia (New Media Arts) at Concordia University. He lives and works in the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood of Montreal.