Through these works, French visual artist Dajadorosario offers a journey around her quest to affirm her identity as an Afro-descendant woman.

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Daja tells her story of a little black girl who grew up in a small town in the south of France, far from her community and cultural roots, in an environment where her skin color is perceived as different.

Through these aesthetic visuals, she explores this duality of identity, which she confronts with the reality of the Western world in search of a new ideal of Afro-descendant and contemporary culture free from all discrimination.

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Daja Do Rosario thus constructs a collective story based on his personal experience. She narrates her life as an Afro-descendant and claims a plural identity at the crossroads of the West and the black continent. Based on her example, she makes heard the story of the African diasporas too often inaudible.

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Her self-portraits thus highlight her by wearing her creations made from improvised materials collected around her.

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Bags for rubble, old t-shirts, wood, raffia, cories, and old African stamps from the colonial and postcolonial eras serve as the basis for his creations: clothes, accessories, and masks of a new kind of mixing tradition and modernity.

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Visual storyteller, Daja tells in images little-known stories of a thousand-year-old Africa, rich in its traditions, whose heritage she values ​​through compositions evocative of its power.

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Each photograph reveals a counter-narrative on Africa and reactivates an erased, forgotten, or truncated memory. Photography becomes a tool for asserting one's identity, all the components of which must be welcomed, admitted, and above all, respected.

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With poetry, Daja invites the viewer to renew their gaze on the continent, far from the hegemonic points of view of the former colonizers. And thus encourages young people from diverse backgrounds to be proud of their origins.