Lot 29
Mallory Lowe Mpoka
Lot 29 Details
Mallory Lowe Mpoka
EMBODIED ARCHIVES, 2023
analog photography, wood engraving, Shou Sugi Ban wood burning material; inkjet print on archival cotton rag paper, 1 of 3 + 2AP, framed
19 x 38 in — 48.3 x 96.5 cm
Estimate $4,125-$5,500
Sold For:
$2,750
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Provenance:
Courtesy of the artist and The Next Contemporary, Toronto
Note:
Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a queer Cameroonian Belgian artist and cultural worker based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal). Through her practice centered on photography, textiles, and ceramics, Mpoka addresses nuanced themes related to migration, cultural trauma, self-image, memory, and environmental colonialism. Embodied Archives is a piece from Mpoka’s series “The Self Portrait Project,” which explores self-portraiture in relation to the artist’s cultural heritage and diasporic narratives. Mpoka explains, “While exploring the notions of re-enactment and family-ness, the process of image-making became a ritual in itself, a place to reimagine oneself and where dreams might be forged out of remnants.”
Mpoka is the winner of the Malick Sidibé prize of the African Biennale of Photography (2022) and the New Generation Photography Award of the National Gallery of Canada (2024). She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at the AGO, Gardiner Museum, and Aga Khan Museum (Toronto); Atiss Dakar Gallery; 1-54 NYC; and Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), among others.