With the project Voyageur / Almanac I explore themes linked to identity, to the knowledge of various stories and histories and of a view of the past that impacts our understanding. I think about the way in which the complexity of human life and storytelling are integrated into nature and our ecological environment. I am interested in the study of scientific and non-scientific forecasting as visual references: geology, cartography, weather events and topography. From within choreographic installations, I study forecasts, data about ocean tides and astronomic cycles, calendars, farmers' almanacs from today and yesterday. "Voyageur" is my metaphor to suggest stories: of individuals, cultures, entire peoples or civilisations who travels in the figurative and symbolic sense, both in space and time. What has been projected into the future by peoples of the past? What has become of reality? What has not materialized? What could happen?

Anna Binta Diallo is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist who investigates memory and nostalgia to create unexpected narratives surrounding identity. She was born in Dakar (Senegal, 1983) and raised in Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg on the traditional territory of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. She completed her BFA at the University of Manitoba’s School of Fine Arts (2006) and received her MFA from the Transart Institue in Berlin (2013). Her work has been shown nationally including exhibitions in Brandon, Winnipeg, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Central and internationally in Finland, Tawian, and Germany. Anna Binta Diallo has been the recipient of multiple grants and honours, notably from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and Francofonds. In 2019, Diallo's work was selected as a shortlisted finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize and in 2021 she is a recipient of the Barbara Spohr Award offered by the Banff Center and the Walter Philips Gallery. She is currently based in Montreal, or Tio’tia:ke, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka.