Franck Kemkeng Noah Camerun, b. 1992

"My traditional culture thus constitutes for me a true richness and my main source of inspiration which, in my creations, will merge with that which opens to me but also which is imposed by means such as globalization or immigration creating a kind of palace of memory. The confrontation with the works born from this experience encourages personal questioning about oneself, about the other, about our human and cultural nature. This idea of fusion between my traditional origins and the culture of the other for the creation of a new self is also inspired by Oswald de Andrade's Brazilian Anthropophagy."

Franck Kemkeng Noah was born in Yaoundé (Cameroun) in 1992. He graduates with a Master in Fine Arts from IBAF. After, he decides to move to Amiens (France) in 2017 to pursue a second Master's degree in artistic research. He soon begins painting on old rugs. The abandoned household items he discovers on the streets serve as fresh supports for a series of sculptures that act as narrative points in migration history.

Franck Kemkeng Noah's artwork, which has been dubbed "hybrid art," is an experimental approach mostly characterized by painting. A distinctive vibrant viewpoint on conceptions of interculturalism, identity, and civilization is at the heart of the artist's aesthetic investigation, from which mixed works emerge. The blending of human civilizations is at the heart of his interests.