JUSTIN EBANDA
Story@memory.cm (2021)
Acrylic on canvas
141 x 149 cm
"My artistic approach questions the collective amnesia of the history of world leaders in general and Africa in
particular. (...) My works are fictional narratives that question the modes and means of transmission of the collective memory, as well as the valorization and
popularization of the original African cultural heritage"
Justin Ebanda
Born in 1982 in Olama, Cameroon, Justin Ebanda lives between Yaoundé, Douala and Paris.
He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris Cergy-France and of the Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Douala, Cameroon.
Justin Ebanda's work deals with the question of commemoration, he thinks both as a form of deconstruction, a form of reconstruction of an identity, as well as a form of decolonization.
The originality of his artistic approach lies in the questioning of collective memory, following the example of Georges Didi-Huberman, Bruce Clarke, Sammy Baloji, Christian Boltanski, Allen Ruppersberg and others.
By inviting the youth to take a journey into the past, in search of lost time, Justin gives them the opportunity to
dream.
FORMATION :
2019-2021 : Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris Cergy, (France)
- National Superior Diploma of Plastic art Expression
2019 : University of Douala, Douala (Cameroon)
- Student at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in the Master's research cycle in History, Political State and International Relations
2009-2016 : University of Douala, Douala (Cameroon)
- Student at the Institute of Fine Arts in the Master of Fine Arts cycle, Diploma of Higher Studies in Fine Arts
1999-2002 : Institute of Artistic Training, Mbalmayo (Cameroon)
- Artistic Baccalaureate (painting)
SHOWS :
2023
- 1-54 Marrakech | with Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, Marrakech, Maroc
2022 :
- SCOPE Miami Beach, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, Miami (USA) group show
- CHATEAU DE SABLE - PE[A]NSER LA MEMOIRE DU VIVANT, Exposition des étudiants diplômés de l'Ecole Supérieure d'Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg
- COUR[s] - [d]ECOL[e] - RECRE[e], Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, group show
- BAD+ Bordeaux, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, group show
- 1-54 Paris, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, solo show
2021 :
- emPReINTe(s), Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, group show
- AKAA, Paris, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, group show
- Art X Lagos, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, group show
- Investec Cape Town Art Fair, group show
2020 :
- "Artistes émergents", Le Carreaux de Cergy, France
2019 :
- "The Burden of Memory: Considering Germany Colonial History in Africa", semaine culturelle, GACY, Cameroun
- "L'urgence des empreintes", Cake’Art, Yaoundé - Cameroun
2017 :
- Espace Doual’art, centre d’Arts Contemporain de Douala, Cameroun
- IN du Salon Urbain de Douala (SUD2017) sur le thème de la place de l'humain
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