Marie Francine, Truce, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 160 x 140 cm, Photo credit: LABA
Francine's creative work is based on the concept of resilience. In her view, resilience is a capacity to adapt, resist, survive and maintain equilibrium, often found in societies in crisis. Francine observes the bold and ambitious way in which young people undertake their socio-professional integration in a particularly difficult urban context. In her work, she depicts dreamlike scenes in which everyday life seems very laborious. That's why, in all her paintings with their surrealist compositions, she reveals for the most part characters with the features of dreamy fighters, referring to the difficult circumstances faced by young people, and in particular women, in finding decent work in society.
Biography
Visual artist Marie Francine Dongmo was born in 1990 in fongo-tongo in western Cameroon. She has lived and worked in Yaoundé for several years. She holds a professional master's degree in visual arts from the foumban institute of fine arts in 2015. Francine has also undertaken art training experiences in the studios of artists such as, Pascal Kenfack, Barthelemy Toguo or Hervé Youmbi.
Marie Francine D. has taken part in several exhibitions, the most important of which are: Tales from Home (2022), Fabien Castanier Gallery, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida in the USA; Collective memory, national memory at LABA Douala, the last image fair in Lagos, woman power in Bandjoun in 2020.