BOMB has published an interview with the artist Adji Dieye, conducted by the writer, critic and archivist Gameli Hamelo, timed to Dieye's solo exhibition CONTINENTE ARTE at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, which continues until 11 October. Dieye speaks candidly about prizes and recognition, describing the art world as voracious in its appetites, its attention easily distracted and its memory short. Awards, she suggests, can serve an institution's need to spotlight particular stories at a particular moment as much as they honour the artist — and she tries not to invest them with too much meaning. Whether the work actually reaches people, she admits, is something no artist can control. What matters to her is the space the work opens up. Her practice is not built to deliver a fixed message, she explains; it creates room for reflection, and that room may resonate with viewers more or less deeply. An award, in her view, cannot measure that kind of encounter. A central thread of CONTINENTE ARTE is the difficulty many Italians have in reckoning with a heterogeneous, fragmented national identity. Dieye observes how a sense of cohesion is often manufactured through the construction of an 'other', rather than by understanding Italian identity as one culturally specific position among many — a reflection she hopes visitors to the Turin show will recognise, even if that recognition is beyond her control.