Em’kal Eyongakpa
Born in Mamfe, 1981 and lives in South West Cameroon and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981. After obtaining a postgraduate diploma in Botany and Ecology, he decided to concentrate exclusively on visual and sound art. His use of poetic, symbolic and surrealistic imagery is often sprinkled with paradoxes that challenge the obvious. His work explores human conditioning over time in relation to information, ideological consumption, freedom and identity crises. Em’kal Eyongakpa approaches the experienced, the unknown as well as collective histories through a ritual use of repetition and transformation.
He works with photography,video,sculpture, sound, text and performance.His interwoven installations not only obscures the boundaries between employed media but could also distort the notion of the real and the illusory.
