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ANTANANARIVO
FEBRUARY 2 - JULY 30, 2023
Her residency in Antananarivo is an opportunity for Grace to explore weaving in its highly diverse forms. Her projectis largely made up of discoveries, encounters and exchanges with Malagasy craft(wo)men. Particularly sensitive to the local materials she comes upon, her principal interest is in raffia, wool yarn and plastic. Like Mon Métier, a work by Madame Zo made of magnetic strips and hacksaws, she wants to do away with codes and explore new models. In Madame Zo, she sees an avant-garde artist with atendency to go against the grain. Both artists share the common desire to weave the world. They believe that everything is interconnected and through their work they seek to make these links tangible. In dialogue with Madame Zo, she intends to design a textile mural which will incorporate plastic and domestic waste accumulated during her stay. This work is intended to mirror the state of the world and is the sum of the encounters she has had during her stay and throughout her journey.
GRACE DOROTHÉE TONG'S BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1992 in Yaoundé (Cameroon), Grace Dorothée Tong lives and works in Douala (Cameroon). She holds a degree in Fine Arts and Art History from the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Nkongssamba at the University of Douala. After several group exhibitions in Cameroon between 2019 and 2021 and a participation in the Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaoundé (RAVY) in 2021, she presented her first solo exhibition in 2022 at the Institut Français du Cameroun. After working introspectively on the traumas of her childhood, the artist has been interested in questions of identity construction since childhood and the formation of interpersonal bonds and questions the belonging to an artist family.