CV129 - Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Architecture of the Self – Érika Nimis

Ciel variable 129 - From Continent to Continent(Summer 2025)
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Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Architecture of the Self
Feeling and Listening to Images
— Érika Nimis

The Architecture of the Self book is an apt reflection of its creator’s complexly constructed identity. Born in Montreal, the Cameroonian-Belgian and queer artist Mallory Lowe Mpoka has become, since her grandmother’s death, the matriarch of her Bamileke family. Photographic archives, self-portraits, and the palpable presence of traditional materials, combined with the materiality of the pages, are central to the work, which is imagined as both palimpsest and kaleidoscope.

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Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 87.3 Mo

Bibliographical Notice

Érika Nimis, “Mallory Lowe Mpoka, Architecture of the Self – Feeling and Listening to Images” in Ciel variable, No. 129, “From continent to continent”, Montreal, 2025, p. 10-19.

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