Collection: Joel Mpah Dooh

Joël is preoccupied with art and experimentation in art. He is inspired by the tactile reality of his environment but is mostly an inner traveler. He works on paper, canvas, corrugated iron and most recently Perspex, mixing earth, colours, clay, packaging, wood and chalk inscriptions and scratching. He explores the fragility of individual human identity and how it reinvents itself while moving and evolving in the city.
He suggests that in the process, this delicate ‘self’ is taking control through conflict with society and its institutions, and draws his own history and destiny in the light of other human connections and relationships.
The marks and abstracted gestures of this contemporary mixed media artist reflect the synthesis of his life as a modern man, who exhibits internationally, yet chooses to live in his home land of Cameroon. His unique artistic style and international perspective presents the viewer with both the mysterious and the familiar. He has an uncommon gift of synchronizing conflicting elements, balancing power and delicacy, medium and emotion, French and Doualan, traditional and modern; merging a myriad of influences to create unforgettable images on canvas, paper, aluminum and Plexiglas. He is currently represented by MOMO Gallery.