Artists in residence

Ludovic Nkoth was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon in 1994, and lives and works in New York City. He completed his BFA at the University of South Carolina, and holds an MFA in painting from Hunter College. Recent solo exhibitions include Transferred Memories (Work No Dey) (2022) at Massimo de Carlo Gallery in London, and Don’t Take This Too (2021) at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles. Nkoth was featured in the group exhibition Fire, Figure Fantasy (2022) at ICA Museum in Miami and in group exhibitions at Ross+Kramer, New York and Jeffrey Deitch, LA. His work is held in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the ICA Museum in Miami.

For Ludovic Nkoth, displacement and deferral occupy a familiar place at the margins of the stories he tells. With swirled and meandering brushstrokes, Nkoth’s practice in figurative painting broaches the ongoing negotiation of transatlantic migration – a direct rumination on diaspora history and on his own expatriation to the US at the age of 13. Melding Cameroonian aesthetic motifs and vivid colors along with post-colonial allegories, Ludovic Nkoth explores the formation and fragmentation of identity. Throughout his work, Nkoth’s figures participate in the fictional and lived experiences that comprise his own identity synthesis; each muddled expression and porous boundary imbues his paintings with the tender incandescence of a distant memory. The navigation of both belonging and outsiderhood in African and American spaces underscores much of Ludovic Nkoth’s work and informs the future-building of kinship, solidarity, and self-determination that is central to his practice.

Daniel Nlandu Nganga graduated from the CLCF – Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français – in 1994, and holds a Master’s degree in Digital Strategy & Communication (IESA – Digital Campus, Paris). He is the writer-director of several documentaries and dramas, magazines and television programmes, as well as being a journalist and media expert. He has been a member of SCAM since 2010.

He began his career in 1996 as an assistant director at France 2 on the programmes “Envoyé Spécial”, “Bouillon de culture” and the programme “Partition” on Guadeloupe 1ère. In 2000, in Martinique, after working with Martinique 1ère as chief editor, he joined the ATV Martinique newsroom as JRI, then as head of editing. In 2006, in French Guiana, he became head of the newsroom at ACG, a local private television station, which later became ATV Guyane. It was also in French Guiana that Daniel Nlandu Nganga was asked to set up TF1’s 1st Antilles-Guyane bureau, for which he was a correspondent for several years.

In 2009, in Guadeloupe, he returned to his passion, cinema and the documentary genre, in particular. He wrote and directed several documentaries shot in the Caribbean, which were regularly selected for festivals in Europe and America. In 2013, after running a ‘Cinema and Documentary Practice’ workshop at the University of the West Indies, he founded the Collectif Zaïgo, a group of talented Guadeloupean filmmakers. In 2015, he took part in creating the local television channel ATV Guadeloupe, where he is the production director. In 2022, he started his digital media www.bigidi.tv, dedicated to cultural and media news from Guadeloupe.

Noah Konan Allui Léonce aka Gbô la légende Noah is an Ivorian choreographer, performer, and visual artist living in France. His work summons hetero-lingual languages which are his: Baule, French, and particularly Nouchi: it is the language of Ivorians of popular class, mixed and creolized language with contributions of Ivorian native languages, French and even English and Chinese. He summons everyday gestures and explores the constant transformation of body and space with spontaneity. Writing is an integral part of his approach, reflecting the movement and orality of languages, while at the same time questioning the colonial heritage.

His stagings and performances have been presented in festivals on the African continent: Ivory Coast, Mali, Benin, Togo, Senegal; in Europe: Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Portugal, Greece; and in the Caribbean, notably in Haiti. In 2020, he joined the Exerce training program at the CCN of Montpellier and was awarded the Artistes dans la cité grant from the Hermès Foundation for Contemporary Art. In 2021, the art center Rester étranger based in Saint-Denis gives him a grant for writing Grigraly.