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Lot Essay
Positioning himself as a flaneur, Joël Mpah Dooh maintains critical distance from his subjects and explores the fragilities and complexities of the human condition. His subjects comprise people living together in urban centres, their expressions evoking a rich spectrum of emotions ranging from fear and desperation to banality and tranquillity.
Sorry Mom shows the artist at a distance, looking into a domestic scene. Based upon the title we can deduce that the work depicts a mother dressing down her son. Another figure peers in through the window in exclamation. Mpah Dooh works the surface of the aluminium adding layers of different materials and scratching the surface to offer vivid chromatic effects. The work is an examination of the domestic, and the universal familiarity of matriarchal disappointment.
A Cameroonian working in Douala, Mpah Dooh participated in the Lines of Connections exhibition, organised by the MTN Art Foundation in 2001, alongside William Kentridge, Kendell Geers and Samuel Fosso. His solo presentation was the highlight of Dak'Art, the Dakar Biennale in 2006. In 2021 he opened an exhibition at Artspace Sun in Seoul alongside Hendrik Lilanga and Edward Said Tingatinga. He is represented by Gallery Momo, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Sorry Mom shows the artist at a distance, looking into a domestic scene. Based upon the title we can deduce that the work depicts a mother dressing down her son. Another figure peers in through the window in exclamation. Mpah Dooh works the surface of the aluminium adding layers of different materials and scratching the surface to offer vivid chromatic effects. The work is an examination of the domestic, and the universal familiarity of matriarchal disappointment.
A Cameroonian working in Douala, Mpah Dooh participated in the Lines of Connections exhibition, organised by the MTN Art Foundation in 2001, alongside William Kentridge, Kendell Geers and Samuel Fosso. His solo presentation was the highlight of Dak'Art, the Dakar Biennale in 2006. In 2021 he opened an exhibition at Artspace Sun in Seoul alongside Hendrik Lilanga and Edward Said Tingatinga. He is represented by Gallery Momo, Johannesburg and Cape Town.