Bang Blaise

FRAGMENTS OF LIFE

Depending on the circumstances, I seek to translate the everyday realities of my surroundings, creating a kind of visual, sensory, and poetic narrative of my environment. This offers me a vast realm of possibilities. I combine the figurative and the abstract, reflecting the multifaceted nature of my work. My compositions are rich in colour and texture, incorporating fragments of odds and ends found here and there around me: newspaper clippings, miscellaneous objects. These fragments are, for me, icons imbued with our stories and our lives. They speak to us and transport us to our own personal imaginaries. I reclaim these elements, painting, gluing, assembling, or embedding them in my work.

FRAGMENTS DE VIE

Au gré des configurations, je cherche à traduire les réalités quotidiennes du contexte dans lequel j’évolue, comme une sorte de narration de plans visuels, sensibles et poétiques de l’environnement. Ce qui m’offre un vaste espace de possible. Je combine le figuratif et l'abstrait, témoin de la pluralité de mon travail. Des compositions riches en couleurs et matières, des fragments de « tas de trucs » trouvés çà et là autour de moi ; des coupures de presse, des objets divers. Ces fragments sont pour moi des i...

TRAINING
2000 - 2004 Residency at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts.
Training Center for Visual Artists / Strasbourg, France.

EXHIBITIONS

2013 Beauty & Disability, Nîmes, France.

2011 “African Way of Art” Galerie Vendrôme, Paris, France.

Galerie de la Perle Noire, Agde, France.

“CoPLER” Saint Symphorien de Lay, France.

2010 “Gondwana” Traveling Exhibition: Cameroon, Nigeria, France.

2009 “JobourgArtFair” Contemporary Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2008 Galerie Brûlée, Strasbourg, France.

International Exhibition: Dakar Contemporary Art Biennial 2008.

“JobourgArtFair” Johannesburg, South Africa.

2007 “In GAMES there is I and THEM” Cercle Kapsiki, Galerie Mam and MTN, Douala, France.

2006 Arts and Leisure Center, Laon, France.

Contemporary Art Fair “ARCO”, Madrid, Spain.

Toast Gallery, Paris, France
2005 Contemporary Art Fair “ARCO”, Madrid, Spain.

2004 “HIV / AIDS in the Age of Globalization”, Museum of World Culture, Sweden.
Contemporary Art Fair (Stʼart 2004), Strasbourg.
Toast Gallery, Paris, France.

2003 Galerie Âmes d’Afrique, Strasbourg, France.

2002 “Afriqua Appart”, Espace NGKB, Berlin, Germany.

“Urban Scenographies”, Galerie Mam, Douala.

2002 “Inside-Outside”, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé.

2001 “From Douala to Berlin”, Installation at 2yk Galerie, Kunstfabrik, Berlin.
"The Scent Exchange" Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg
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