Ginette Daleu Ginette Flore Daleu | |
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| Born | September 23, 1977 Metet, Cameroon |
| Died | November 9, 2018 (aged 41) |
| Known for | Collage |
Ginette Daleu (born 23 September 1977; died 9 November 2018) was an artist from Cameroon.
Ginette Daleu Ginette Flore Daleu | |
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| Born | September 23, 1977 Metet, Cameroon |
| Died | November 9, 2018 (aged 41) |
| Known for | Collage |
Ginette Daleu (born 23 September 1977; died 9 November 2018) was an artist from Cameroon.
Ginette Flore Daleu was born in 1977 at Metet in Cameroon. [1] She was a degree from the Institut de Formation Artistique in Mbalmayo [2] and graduated in 2000. [3] She also attended the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Brescia in Italy. [4] Daleu had created art from a young age and knew she wanted to be an artist, against the wishes of her family. [5]
Daleu died at her home in Senegal on 9 November 2018, following an illness. [6]
In 2006 Daleu was part of a collective of artists who travelled from Douala to Dak'art, exploring how to revitalise art education in Cameroon along the way. [7] This project was called Exit Tour and the group travelled overland, meeting people and working with artists and students along the way. [8] This trip came out of work at ArtBakery, an organisation to encourage artists in Cameroon. [7] Working with and within communities became an important part of Daleu's practice. [9]
For Daleu, involvement with ArtBakery changed her practice from working on decorative art to exploring the aesthetics of imperfect places like Bessengué City. [10] Sometimes her work was drawn directly to the walls of the spaces she was exploring. [11] This led to collage and photography becoming hallmarks of Daleu's artistic practice. [10] A residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam produced work with attempted to "unpeel the skin of things". [12] Her work has been exhibited in Germany, [13] in Switzerland, [14] and in Italy. [15]
The World Bank sponsored an exhibition of work by Cameroonian artists in 2014, and Daleu was one of those featured. [5] She produced a new series entitled Architextures urbaines et Les introuvables. The work "Les introuvables" is a series of 8 photos printed on canvas that has been exhibited during the forth edition of SUD Salon Urbain de Douala in 2017. [16]
In 2018 Daleu was one of the artists commissioned by Videoart at Midnight festival of video art in Berlin. [17] The artist Antje Majewski collaborated with Daleu on a new installation called Le Trône, where video and painting explore German colonial legacies in the Cameroon. [18] She also exhibited at Dak'art in 2018. [19]
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