SALIFOU LINDOU: CARAMBOLAGE (CAROM SHOTS)

  • SALIFOU LINDOU

    SOLO EXHIBITION | CARAMBOLAGE (CAROM SHOTS)
  • AFIKARIS Gallery is pleased to present Carambolage (Carom Shots), the fourth solo exhibition of Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou. Curated by...
    AFIKARIS Gallery is pleased to present Carambolage (Carom Shots), the fourth solo exhibition of Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou. Curated by Louise Thurin, this exhibition offers a journey through twenty-five years of creation, gathering major works from the early 2000s to the present. It traces the evolution of a singular visual language—shaped by formal experimentation, recurring motifs, and a multidisciplinary approach in perpetual reinvention.
  • 'Carambolage'—a French term borrowed from billiards—refers to a shot where the cue ball hits two other balls in succession. Beyond...

    "Carambolage"—a French term borrowed from billiards—refers to a shot where the cue ball hits two other balls in succession. Beyond its sporting use, the word "carambolage" evokes a series of impacts, ricochets, collisions, and sometimes even car crashes.

     

    This idea forms the conceptual framework of the exhibition, unfolding as a visual and symbolic circuit. The viewer’s gaze is invited to carom from one work to the next, to catch contrasts and echoes, to find delight in unexpected dialogues and juxtapositions. The scenography rejects chronological order in favor of a zigzagging drift—revealing the timeless, even polytemporal, nature that runs through Lindou’s entire body of work.
  • ABOUT THE ARTIST

    ABOUT THE ARTIST

    A self-taught artist, Salifou Lindou is part of the former generations of artists in Cameroon who now teach the new generation. He co-founded the Kapsiki Circle in 1998 to introduce the arts in Douala by organising exhibitions, projects and residencies. 
     
    While Salifou Lindou started his career mainly creating installations, sculptures and mixed collages on canvas, he works with pastels on paper for a few years now. His pastels emerge from an energetic and spontaneous tangle of lines and strokes. If the artist deals with topical issues, he always illustrates the passion and desire to live in opposition to the vulnerability of the body. He puts forward the duality of human beings: between strength and weakness, immobility and movement, peace and chaos. 
     

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  • « The human being is at the center of my work. I address social and political themes through shared experiences, exploring both the beauty and the violence, as well as the fragility of our condition. My goal is to highlight the strength and vulnerability of the human being. »  

    — SALIFOU LINDOU

  • IN THE PRESS

    LE MONDE | Art contemporain : le détonant « carambolage » de Salifou Lindou à Paris
    Find below the full article in Le Monde dedicated to the work of Cameroonian artist Salifou Lindou on the occasion of his solo exhibition "Carambolage" (Carom Shots) at AFIKARIS Gallery, curated by Louise Thurin.