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:

*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.

Group Exhibitions:

*2022, "Pareidolias" 24th November-23rd December Uxval Gochez Gallery - Barcelona, Spain.
*2022, "Taï Dam" with Joël Alessandra, Galerie Art Maniak - Paris, France.
*2022, "Broadway Plaza Times Square NYC", Thursday 23rd June, Display on giant screen - NYC, USA.
*2019, "Sleep & Eat Event" with Verdigris Art Consultants, Olympia - London, UK.
*2019, "Salon d'art contemporain YIA -Young International Artists Art Fair" Le 118 Rivoli - Paris, France.
*2019, "The Other Art Fair" Victoria House - London, UK.
*2019, "Meeting" Gwanjeo Culture and Art Center - Daejeon South Korea.
*2019, "Salon Artfusion" Palais des Congrès - Carcasonne -Le Dôme- France.
*2018, "Métissage, l'art du partage" Pôle Culturel et Scientifique de Rochebelle - Alès France.
*2016-2017 Brandt-Roberts Galleries - Columbus, Ohio, USA.
*2016 "Biennial 2016 Sudestampe" Galerie de la Salamandre - Nîmes, France.
*2016 "Praxis (Process)" Brandt-Roberts Gal...