The Market takes the shape of a street kiosk, inspired by the kind of stands selling DVDs, televisions, and boubous that are common in markets across West and Central Africa. Built around a central parasol, the kiosk sits within a larger reimagining of the street—composed of materials, images, and sounds collected by the artist during her travels and research.

The ground is covered in earth, scattered with objects carefully gathered by the artist: water sachets, synthetic braids, worn-out sandals known as sans-confiance. Overhead, taut electric wires hang with plastic bags caught in the wind. This urban environment, both familiar and intentionally recomposed, evokes a shared visual language of disorder seen across the Global South.

At the center of the installation, the kiosk houses the video series Naked Underneath, or How to Use Clothing as a Tool for Self-Affirmation, begun in Lagos in 2019 and continued in Dakar in 2020. In the videos, women are invited to wear a boubou—or kaba—directly over their bare skin. Once imposed by colonial rule to cover African women’s bodies, the boubou has since been reclaimed in domestic life as a symbol of comfort and rest. Here, it becomes a space of embodied reinterpretation—a way of inhabiting nudity from within. The women are filmed walking through public space, while their voices, heard in voice-over, reflect on what the experience brought up for them.

Two televisions play the films. Around the kiosk, the boubous worn in the videos are suspended, alongside DVD sleeves—some found in markets, others designed by the artist for the project. Each series of garments responds to the local context: abstract batik in Nigeria; bright fabrics, headwraps, and hand-drawn motifs in Senegal. A wall mural depicting two female faces faces a set of duplicated posters from the project, pasted directly onto the installation walls in reference to street advertising culture.

The installation is also shaped by a soundscape created with Phantom Wizard. Slowed-down recordings of the city—honking, voices, engines—create a suspended, dreamlike atmosphere that blends with the voices of the women heard in the videos.

The result is an immersive environment where the viewer enters a space that feels both personal and collective. The tension between invisible nudity and embodied presence runs through every layer of the installation. By symbolically sharing space with the women on screen—their steps, their words, their silence—the work invites reflection on how bodies navigate, disappear, and assert themselves in public space.