While everyone might be gearing up for <a href="http://www.hongkongartfair.com/">Art Hong Kong</a>, which opens today, we're looking at Dak'art in Senegal, West Africa's most important art biennial that - for some reason - seemed to have slipped past the art world's radar for another year when it opened on Friday. is now into its 10th edition, having turned its attention solely to art in 1992. Despite wavering in quality over the years, it's still a key place to get your head around contemporary art from the African continent and manages to achieve a triumphant sweep of artists hailing from Casablanca to Cape Town. Here are three artists participating this year who caught our eye: <strong>Nathalie Mba Bikoro</strong> French-Gabonese uses a smart and stark technique called photo-etching to create these works. Depicting a playground intersected by political movements, marching armies and animals strung up in a ritualistic manner, the artist uses the motif of <em> Alice in Wonderlan</em> d to portray a hallucinatory and stream-of-consciousness representatation of her own experiences. <strong>Gabrielle Goliath</strong> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"'Where are you from?' is a question that has been posed to me by many people, and it is not without a certain embarrassment that they are informed of the truth - that is: 'Ek is 'n Kimberley Coloured' (I am a Coloured person from Kimberley)" says the artist Gabrielle Goliath in her statement on this humorous, if confrontational, three-channel video work. She acts out stereotypes of women from Brazil, France and Spain, the places that people often assume, incorrectly, that she is from.</span> <strong>Bridget Baker</strong> is one of South Africa's most celebrated contemporary artists, and here shows off an extended project she's been working on, looking at how history weaves itself into the very bricks and mortar of a building. Baker's <em>Stieglitz House</em> uses video projections inside a wooden structure to recreate the sensation of looking through windows and peering into a house. Dak'art continues until June 10. For more info, and the history of this linchpin event in African contemporary art, go to