GALERIE MAM

DOUALA, CAMEROON
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Located in Douala, Cameroon, Galerie MAM is a place of discovery, learning and appropriation dedicated to contemporary art and African creativity in all its forms of expression. Since our establishment in 1995, we have organised over 150 exhibitions on 3 continents and participated in dozens of international fairs and biennials. Our mission is to raise the profile of contemporary art on the continent and internationally by supporting artists and assisting collectors. We work with internationally renowned artists and delight in guiding collectors through the process of assembling a collection, be they seasoned collectors or are just starting out.

ARTISTS

ALEXIS PESKINE
CLAUDIE POINSARD
JOËL M’PAH DOO
SOLY CISSÉ

ALEXIS PESKINE

Mireille, 2022, Acrylic Gold Leaves and Nails on Wood, 167 x 113 cm

Building on his Russian and Afro-Brazilian origin, Alexis Peskine (b. 1979, France) creates mixed-media works that address issues affecting the African diaspora. His signature works are portraits of Africans rendered by hammering nails of different sizes into treated wooden planks in honour of the many individuals forced to emigrate by sea to Europe. The nails, driven to different depths, create relief and three-dimensionality, and symbolise suffering and resistance, but also transcendence. Peskine has held solo exhibitions in North America, Europe and, recently, Douala (Galerie MAM), and his many awards include a Fulbright scholarship and a Hennessy Black Masters Art Competition award.

CLAUDIE POINSARD

Racontes Mon Histoire, 2023, Acrylic on Canvas, 146 x 114 cm

The self-described product of an improbable encounter between a young Cameroonian and a French surveyor, Claudie Poinsard characterises herself as “one of the many paradoxes of chance.” That very quality defines her spontaneous approach to painting, whereby she welcomes the coincidental course of a line and the spread of colour, the result of which pushes the mute figures she depicts to the limits of their representation, their bodies revealing the arbitrariness of their envelope. The themes of these works are solitude, roots, waste and the cult of beauty. Poinsard has exhibited her work in France, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Denmark and Monaco.

JOËL M’PAH DOOH

Sur un Arbre Perché, 2012, Mixed Media on Paper and Wood, 122 x 103 cm

Joël Mpah Dooh is a painter and multimedia artist who trained at the Beaux-arts d'Amiens in France and lives and works in Douala, Cameroon. His practice is defined by experimentation with a variety of media, including painting, sculpture and engraving, and revolves around themes of human fragility, identity and reinvention in response to the demands of society, institutions and relationships. His works reveal an uncommon gift for distilling multiple influences at once and combining contrasting elements to great effect—French and Doualan, traditional and modern, etc. His exhibition history includes solo shows in Johannesburg, Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, France and the United States.

SOLY CISSÉ

Pintades 2, 2010, Acrylic on Canvas, 62 x 62 cm

Soly Cissé is a graduate of the Dakar School of Fine Arts and is one of Senegal’s most celebrated artists. As a child, Cissé loved drawing on the X-rays that his father, a radiologist, brought home. Today, he remains fascinated by transparencies and chiaroscuro. His works are nothing short of phantasmagorical, and present fantastical worlds populated by human-animal hybrid figures emerging from backgrounds defined by chaos and darkness. Cissé has participated in numerous exhibitions in Africa, America and Europe, and his works are in the permanent collections of the Pompidou Centre, France; Sa Bassa Blanca Museum, Spain; and Black Rock Senegal.

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