Artist Profile
Marie Francine Dongmo
Visual artist who lives and works in Cameroon
Marie Francine Dongmo (b.1990) is a visual artist who lives and works in Yaoundé, Cameroon. In her work, she presents resilience as a tool for adaptation, resistance, and the maintaining of balance in a society often subject to crisis. She questions the way in which the fragility of young people submits to the tense socio-political climate, and she seeks to shine a light on the extent that failures in education constitute a blockage in the development of the individual in society. Her work, which places the younger generation in the forefront, raising questions of hope and survival in a constantly changing world.