Lucas Fotsing takou (aka Lucfosther diop)     (from Cameroon / Africa)
TASTE

He works with drawing, painting, collage, installation, intervention, photography, and video performance to explore the influences of neocolonialism and imperialism on a personal point of departure and on the social and urban domains. He studied Fine arts at the Yaounde 1 University(2000-2003) and has been a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2009–2010). He is the first artist to benefit by a residency grant at ArtBakery (Bonendale, Cameroon) in 2003, at the MTNC Foundation in 2007 and a digital arts research and production Unesco-Aschberg award for French Africa in 2013. Reccent exhibitions include: World One Minute Video, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2008), the 2rd Thessaloniki Biennial (2009), the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (2010), PhotoEspaña (2011), the 11th Havana Biennial (2012) and he won the FAAP Residency Award at The Southern Panoramas International Contemporary Art, 18th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil (2013).


www.lucfostherdiop.com