EM'KAL EYONGAKPA was born EYONGAKPA MBI in 1981. Lives and works in CAMEROON. After a post graduate diploma in Botany & Ecology, he took a turn to concentrate exclusively on visual and sound art.
Interdisciplinary artist (with a focus on experimental aspects of photography, video /photography sculptures, sound, and
performance). His use of poetic, symbolic &/ surrealistic imagery seen by some as visual poetry tends to question the obvious. He works mostly with staged fiction photography sequences in a bit to use light to write his mind, experiences and observations, approaching photography mainly from an introspective stand point.
He uses interdisciplinary art practices as a means of expression and high, mass culture and his life as a testing ground,
exploring the human conditioning over time, ego wars and the ever existing freedom & the identity crisis.

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> Solo exhibitions:

2011
- German Cooperation, Yaoundé, Cameroon (Upcoming);

2010
- GOETHE INSTITUT Yaoundé, "SUN is the MOON" performance, Yaoundé, Cameroon;

2009
- CCF Yaoundé, "SUN is the MOON", Yaoundé, Cameroon.

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> Selected group exhibitions:

2011
- "Objectifs" (Em'Kal Eyongakpa, with Patrick Wokmeni) Doual'art, Douala, Cameroon (January-February 2011);

2010
- "Trans" vert d'eau (with Maksaens Denis), Off SUD 2010, Douala Cameroon;
- "Douala vu par" (with Andrew Tsabangu)? off SUD 2010, Douala Cameroon;
- 16th International symposium on Electronic art (ISEA2010RUHR), Germany;
- RAVY 2010, Yaoundé, Cameroon;

2009
- GAIA, Art contemporain africain, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, France;
- Panafrican festival of Algiers, "La modernité dans l'art africain", Algiers (Algeria);

2008
- Africa UK 07, "Bring the noise", Palais de congrès, Yaoundé, Cameroon

2007
- Africa UK 07, "Bring the noise", the Shunt, London, United Kingdom;
- Africa UK 07, "Bring the noise", the Shunt, Kampala, Uganda.