Marijah Bac Cam

The work of Marijah Bac Cam questions the Memory of the Living through the Languages of the Feminine Principle (creative principle of Nature) by means of drawing, painting and increasingly photography and video.
What does this chaos of fullness and emptiness mean, enhanced with dots, curves, golden wefts and gestural writing?
In the artist's painting we perceive a Living being organized before our eyes, starting with the diffusion of black ink. These dark masses mingle with another color to symbolize the different elements, air, water, fire, earth, ether. Suddenly an organic mesh forms on the surface, connected to the misty depth. It is a question of reversal, as if to lead our gaze towards an inner world, that of the organs, tissues, vessels of an unrepresented body. These drawings express more sensibly an intuitive word in a vegetal and vibratory atmosphere that are our buried memories. They are the representation of the original past in a form that is no longer mental but metaphorical.
Graffiti sometimes float here and there, like a palimpsest as if to inscribe a forgotten verbal dimension and question the meaning of forms.
Her work evokes images that are almost figurative but difficult to identify. It's a question of everyone's...

1998 Honors degrees of Arts (MA Visual Arts or Maîtrise d'arts-plastiques) : University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne – Paris XVème, France.
1992 BTn F12 Applied-Arts : Lycée Camille Claudel - Vauréal, France

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS:

*Since May 2022 Private collection of 59 artworks at Parq Fulton 1400 W Randolph Street - Chicago, USA.
*Since 2016 "Imago Mundi ART France" collection Fondazione Luciano Benetton.
*Since 2015 "The Kotanko Collection" private collection of Bernard and Cordula Kotanko in Asia and Vienna.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

*2024 Jardin Médiéval "Jardin Secret" Uzès, France.
*2023 Artist residency "Le corps est le temple de l'esprit" Temple d'Arpaillargues, France.
*2022 Permanent solo exhibition Parq Fulton 1400 W Randolph Street - Chicago, USA.
*2022 "Impressions Organiques", Le Temple - Arpaillargues, France.
*2014 Gallery La Petite Expo - Lussan, France.
*2013 Gallery La Petite Expo - Lussan, France.
*2011 Gallery Corps & Âme - Nîmes, France.
*2010 "Carte Blanche" Gallery Indigo - Uzès, France.
*2010 "Entre Abscisses et Ordonnées" Café Restaurant Le Renaissance - Uzès, France.
*2006 Bookstore Le Lézard Amoureux - Cavaillon, France.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

*2024, "Le Ballet Incessant" Media Library Montaren-St-Médiers, FRance.
*2022, "Pareidolias" Uxval Gochez Gallery - Barcelona, Spain.
*2022, "Taï Dam" with Joël Alessandra, Galerie Art Maniak - Paris, France.
*2022, "Broadway Plaza Times Square NYC", Thursday 23rd J...