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born 1985 Cameroon
Jean-David Nkot (born 1985) is a Cameroonian artist.
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If I used to focus on the pain and suffering of my characters, now, I put forward their resilience and strength
I want things to change and I need to talk about it, make this problem visible and create dialogue spaces to discuss it
I need to document the story of these people who are more considered “undesirables” than human beings. aim to restore their humanity and to pay tribute to their courage and fight
Art offers us the possibility and the means, both ideological and aesthetic, to say things that speak to everyone, and this is at this specific moment that my artistic practice takes place
What I do know is that before being an artist, I am a human being who lives in a society, in a space in a changing world
In my beginnings, I was focusing on the sorrow of my characters. Now, I emphasize their struggle, rather than their pain
I had never even read a book before, But art presented itself to me and I simply followed it, without knowing where the story was going to end