Mallory Lowe Mpoka

Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a queer Cameroonian Belgian multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal. In Camera Obscura (chambre noire in Latin), Mpoka engages with themes of memorialization, subversion, colonial history and representation by deconstructing traditional modes of making, and by experimenting with the narrative and material potential of images and objects. Through an auto-ethnographic exploration, she delves into the colonial legacy of photography and the camera obscura. She draws on daguerreotype aesthetics and silhouette self-portraits to craft photo-objects that resonate beyond her polyphonic heritage. Her debut artist book, Architecture of the Self: What Lives Within Us, will be published in fall of 2024 in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC).