About the artist
Ajarb Bernard Ategwa (Cameroon b. 1988). His hometown, Douala, Cameroon’s largest city, has had many foreign influences in the past and more recently an influx of migrants from within the country as well as from neighbouring regions. This has shaped Douala into the vibrant and colourful metropolis that is the source of Ategwa's art. The paintings work as sequences in a larger narrative describing the chaos of his urban surroundings.
His work has recently been acquired by the Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin and the Perez Art Museum Miami. Previous exhibitions include Peres Projects, Berlin, and the Cameroon National Museum, curated by Simon Njami.
