Joel Mpah Dooh
Cameroon, 1956
Joel Mpah Dooh is preoccupied with art and the experiment in art. He is inspired by the tactile reality of his environment but is mostly an inner traveler ; He works on paper, canvas, corrugated iron and most recently perspex, mixing earth, colours, clay, packaging wood and chalk inscriptions and scratching. Such material conjures a somber atmosphere. He explores the fragility of individual human identity and how it reinvents himself while moving and evolving in the city. He suggests that in the process, this delicate ‘self’ is taking control through conflict with society and the institutions and draws his own history and destiny in the light of other human connections and relationships.
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