Ousmane Bâ, a Franco-Guinean-Senegalese artist working from Japan, has established himself as a distinctive presence in contemporary international art. Drawing from a rich cultural inheritance that bridges African spiritual practices and Japanese aesthetic philosophy, his work transforms the human body into a conduit between earthly and transcendent realms. Through his practice of artistic transformation, Bâ manipulates symbols of weightlessness, ceremonial elements, and large-scale compositional techniques to create a dialogue between ancestral traditions and contemporary vision. His levitating figures, rooted in Senegalese rab traditions, merge with the visual language of japonisme and ukiyo-e, forming a cross-cultural poetic expression that speaks to universal human experience.