Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a Cameroonian Belgian artist who works between Montreal and Douala. Through her practice centered on photography, textiles, and ceramics, Mpoka addresses themes related to migration, cultural trauma, self-image, memory, and environmental colonialism. Moving across analog photography, handprinting techniques, and natural dying on textiles, she weaves together archival images, family photographs, and self-portraitures to create poetic compositions that marry personal experience and collective memory. Her organic sculptural installations explore notions of place-based knowledge among African and Afro-descendant diasporas and untangle complex histories related to colonialism. Growing up between cultures and continents, she places special emphasis on the land being a site of trauma and possibilities, as well as on its inextricable links to identity formation.
