Kaeth B, Artisans of the world, 2023

 Kaeth B, Zam Zam, wood assembly and size, 74 x 50.5 cm, 2023

Her creative work is based on the different relationships between people, which she believes form the basis of living together and the continuity of humanity. The artist observes that these relationships deteriorate with each passing day, and depicts scenes of injustice, conflict, hatred, marginalisation and tribalism within societies. All of her works, skilfully produced using wood assembly techniques, depict for the most part characters with an attitude of excluded deprivation that refers to the situation in which many people, in general, and women in particular, live in society.

Biography

Born in Nlong, a small town in the Centre region of Cameroon, Catherine BELLA aka Kaeth B. is an artist who expresses herself in sculpture and painting. She currently lives and works in the town of Nkonsamba. After obtaining her A4 Spanish baccalaureate at the Bilingual High School Etoug-ébé in Yaoundé, she decided to continue her training in the plastic arts at the Foumban Fine Arts Institute of the University of Douala in Nkongsamba. She holds a DEAP (Diploma in Fine Arts Studies) and a DESAP (Diploma of Higher Studies in Visuals Arts) from the same university.

Kaeth B. has since participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, meetings, festivals and visual arts competitions around the world. Her most recent and important exhibitions include "Speaking life" with Annie Kadji art (2023) " the breath of the ancestors " at the Biennale in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2022), the virtual exhibition " confinement 2.0" in 2022 with the Jeunes Artistes d'Avenir collective (JAA Sénégal). For example, she was courted to create a mural at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac for the exhibition On the road to Cameroon's chiefdoms, from the visible to the invisible ' (2022), and was invited to take up an artistic residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as part of the Institut Français de Paris residency programme Visa for creation Haiti- Spécial programme 2021'.