Drawing from the family archives passed down by her grandmother, Mallory Lowe Mpoka retraces the history of her ancestors and, more broadly, that of a people marked by the violence surrounding the Cameroonian War of Independence in the 1950s and 1960s. Lowe Mpoka invites us to immerse ourselves in her cultural, familial, and artistic heritage as she revisits and reinvents her history. At the heart of the exhibition, a textile installation weaves together an intimate and collective history, intertwining past, present, and future narratives, true and imagined.
Mallory Lowe Mpoka
Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a queer Cameroonian-Belgian artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. She has received the Malick Sidibé Prize at the African Biennale of Photography (2022) and the New Generation Photography Award (2024), and her work has been exhibited globally, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Gardiner Museum, 1-54 NYC, and SAVVY Contemporary. She released her debut artist book, Architecture of the Self: What Lives Within Us, in November 2024, and her most recent body of work is currently featured at the National Gallery of Canada.
Curator
Marie-Ann Yemsi