Mallory Lowe Mpoka
MALLORY LOWE MPOKA WAS BORN IN 1996 IN MONTREAL, CANADA. SHE WORKS BETWEEN MONTREAL AND DOUALA, CAMEROON.
A visual artist, her practice draws on archival photographs and personal experiences and examines how individuals navigate places, continually reconsidering the nature of identity and belonging. Her use of photography, textile, collage and screen printing refers to a reality between many cultures, while contextualizing her work in a local and familiar environment.
Her recent investigations question the notion of home as an (in)tangible place and the concept of migration through the prism of diasporic, transoceanic and post-colonial realities, while incorporating personal archives, heirlooms and self-portraits.
Mpoka was a Villa Lena Foundation artist-in-residence in 2021 and has been nominated as a finalist for the Access ART x Prize 2022/23 by Art x Lagos and Yinka Shonibare’s Foundation. She has shown her work nationally and internationally at Atiss Dakar Gallery, Art Toronto, Fofa Gallery, Phi Center, Rad Hourani and le Livart Gallery. Mpoka’s most recent work, created during a research residency at Bandjoun Station Museum, was on diaply on the occasion of the 13th Edition of Bamako Encounters, African Photography Biennale.
