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"Some choose to create images, I choose to live them"
Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro's interdisciplinary practices incorporate a synthesis of collaborative engagements, international community dialogue, body politics and development across continents through a merging of creative practices in live art performance, sound & vocal art, film, literature & museum archives, body art, installation and mixed visual media. Her practice derive from developing a creative language through cancer physio-therapies in her personal battle with Leukaemia cancer throughout the 90's.
Her critical creative practices are informed by discourses of histories, archives and theories on postcolonialism, diaspora, migration, identities, afro & alter modernism and culture. Her work reveals and creates moments of synthesis and harmony between seemingly disparate, bodies of knowledge, cultural traditions and value systems. An exploration of creolised identity, heritage, memory and homeland, the artist investigates colonial past, tyranny, dictates of gender, traditions and mythologies.
Her works tends to be very conceptual and engage with communities contesting handcrafted economies of art, politics, literature, ecologies and philosophy combining alternative strategies in performance and practice to deconstruct social narratives and work on processes and engagement rather than final products.
With her approach both educative and allegorical, Nathalie Mba Bikoro highlights the different tones of a society shared between delusions and rituals where self-accomplishment depends on the ability to choose.
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"We always supposed something would give us a definition of who we really were, our class position or our national position, our geographic origins or where our grandparents came from, but I don't think any one thing any longer will tell us who we are" Stuart Hall
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” James Baldwin
"Crossing borders means becoming an other, whether it means becoming an outsider in new territory or coming to understand yourself within another social structure. Crossing borders is a form of dialogue and measure in destabilising patterns of inequity" - Alyssa Hutton
"We are made to connect. Eyes to see, hands to feel, hearts to love" - Chris Dean
"The point is not to find your own voice, the point is to get rid of it and construct bridges with the unknown" - Phillip Glass
Her critical creative practices are informed by discourses of histories, archives and theories on postcolonialism, diaspora, migration, identities, afro & alter modernism and culture. Her work reveals and creates moments of synthesis and harmony between seemingly disparate, bodies of knowledge, cultural traditions and value systems. An exploration of creolised identity, heritage, memory and homeland, the artist investigates colonial past, tyranny, dictates of gender, traditions and mythologies.
Her works tends to be very conceptual and engage with communities contesting handcrafted economies of art, politics, literature, ecologies and philosophy combining alternative strategies in performance and practice to deconstruct social narratives and work on processes and engagement rather than final products.
With her approach both educative and allegorical, Nathalie Mba Bikoro highlights the different tones of a society shared between delusions and rituals where self-accomplishment depends on the ability to choose.
Follow the story here...
"We always supposed something would give us a definition of who we really were, our class position or our national position, our geographic origins or where our grandparents came from, but I don't think any one thing any longer will tell us who we are" Stuart Hall
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” James Baldwin
"Crossing borders means becoming an other, whether it means becoming an outsider in new territory or coming to understand yourself within another social structure. Crossing borders is a form of dialogue and measure in destabilising patterns of inequity" - Alyssa Hutton
"We are made to connect. Eyes to see, hands to feel, hearts to love" - Chris Dean
"The point is not to find your own voice, the point is to get rid of it and construct bridges with the unknown" - Phillip Glass
©Nathalie Mba Bikoro 2002-2016
