Louise SOMBGA, The white of words, 2022, collage of fabrics on canvas, 115 x 85 cm, Photo credit: LABA
Louise SOMBGA, Flood, 2022, Collage of fabrics on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Louise's work focuses on psychological violence, which she does not hesitate to make known as a victim. She depicts characters with exploded heads to convey this violence. Louise offers moments of painful, shocking experiences from everyday life. Her compositions, harmoniously constructed from fabric glued to canvas, mostly depict characters with an air of profound confusion, perplexity and desolation, particularly echoing the unfortunate situation of women in the world in general, and in Cameroon in particular.
Biography
Born in 1992 in Douala, Cameroon, SOMBGA Louise La Fortune holds a bachelor's degree in Plastic Arts from the Foumban Fine Arts Institute in Nkongsamba. Passionate about fashionable clothing, she turned to painting, with an emphasis on collage of bits of fabric and loincloth. After her academic career, she went on to learn the collage technique from artists such as Jean-Jacques Kanté and Hervé Youmbi.
Louise has taken part in a number of art competitions, including the Pascal Marthine TAYOU prize (3rd place) for her work Guide at the Young Talent Competition (COJES) organized every three years by the Doual'art space in Cameroon in 2021. She has presented her work in various art venues for group and solo exhibitions. The most recent include: HIN ART 3rd edition mask to masks at the Akwa HIN hotel (2023); GENDER MATTER organized by LABA as part of the L'Art de l'inclusion project and NEXT GENERATION at the Doual'art space in Douala (2022).