Limited Edition Prints
YVON NGASSAM
This selection of photographs by Cameroonian artist Yvon Ngassam is part of Portrait of a Community – Features of a Land, a new commission coinciding with the launch of Bikoka Art Project. BAP is a new initiative fostering creative and professional opportunities for local youth and women in Lolodorf, Cameroon.
The series of images depicts landscapes showing the verdant nature of the region, elements of vernacular architecture, edifices inherited from German (1884-1916) and French (1916-1960) colonisation, and portraits such as the young woman at a bar in Lolodorf, indicative of night life in this historically charged semi-rural municipality.
Each work comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Proceeds from the sales are shared between the commissioned artist and Bikoka Art Project (represented by Eyonart) to fund future artists commissions and workshops for young people and women in Lolodorf.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1982 in Bangangte (Cameroon) Yvon Ngassam lives and works in Douala. Predominantly known as a photographer, Ngassam’s artistic practice expands the boundaries of the photographic medium to encompass film, sound and visual experiments using traditional techniques like etching and embroidery.
His work addresses both historical and contemporary issues such as the legacy of slavery, Cameroon’s colonial history and cultural heritage, urban transformations, displacement, and migration. Central to these topics is the notion of resilience, a theme Ngassam approaches through the prism of dreams.
His most recent solo exhibitions are ‘Portrait of a Community – Features of a Land’, Municipal Foyer, Lolodorf (2022) and ‘Traces’, Doual’Art, Douala (2021). He has participated in international group exhibitions and biennales including: ‘The Nudity of the Soul’, Kunsthal Aarhus (2021); ‘Streams of Consciousness’, 12th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography, Bamako (2019); ‘L’Heure Rouge’, 13th Dak’Art – Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2018); ‘Rip It Up’, 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Changjiang (2017).
His work is part of collections in Cameroon and internationally.