Guy Woueté

L'heure de conter

La magie d'une promesse réside dans sa capacité à rendre perceptible, l'espace d'un instant, à travers tout notre être, l'expérience de la plénitude qui niche dans l'intangible.
Trop vite, nous oublions que, la promesse est réalisée.
Plus rien à attendre.
Se réinventer un chemin, quitter l'enclos pour de bon.
La terre fait corps avec nous.
Ceci n'est pas une promesse.
C'est l'heure de conter

It’s time to tell

The magic of a promise lies in its ability to make perceptible, for a moment, through our whole being, the experience of the fullness which nests in the intangible.
Too quickly, we forget that, the promise is fulfilled.
Nothing to wait.
Reinventing a path, leaving the enclosure for good.
The earth is one with us.
This is not a promise.
It's time to tell.

Authorship:

Guy Woueté

Title:

L'heure de conter (It’s time to tell)

Format:

Poetry and photo

Date:

2020

More info:

@Guywouete (Instagram)

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La terre comme je devrais l’apercevoir si j’étais habité par la science, 2019: scan of an existing drawing.
Petite méditation sur les origines de la vie, le système de mouvement qui ordonne et maintient la vie sur terre (la rotation de la Terre et la révolution de la Terre).

Earth as I should see it if I was inhabited by science, 2019: scan of an existing drawing.
Small meditation on the origins of life, the system of movement which orders and maintains life on earth (the rotation of the Earth and the revolution of the Earth).

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Nuit sans Fin (Endless Night), 2014-2018: scan of a poem written in 2016 as part of the artist publication Taming Anonymity, 2018, made by Guy Woueté upon his return from the Calais “Jungle”, where he spend a week during the time of dismantling of the migrant and refugee camp.

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Un Regard Total sur l'énergie de la Terre, 2020: photographie d'un nouveau collage. Culotte à pois/maillot de bain (pois blanc sur fond bleu), logo de Texaco, texte sur papier canson.
Un monde sexy, complètement foré, au regard féroce, arborant un nez étoilé blanc-rouge (logo d'une des plus grandes firmes multinationales leader dans l'industrie de l'extraction pétrolière). La majorité de nos gouvernants aujourd'hui ont inscrits l'économie capitaliste et monopolistique comme credo du développement de nos sociétés. Condamnant la majorité de l'humanité à la précarité et congédiant du même-coups le vivant dans son entièreté vers une fin prématurée.

A Total Look at the Energy of the Earth, 2020: photo of a new collage.
Polka dot panties/swimsuit (white polka dots on blue background), Texaco logo, text on canson paper.
A sexy world, completely drilled, with a fierce look, sporting a white-red starry nose (logo of one of the largest multinational companies leaders in the oil extraction industry). The majority of our governments today have registered the capitalist and monopolistic economy as a creed for the development of our societies. Condemning the majority of humanity to precariousness and at the same time dismissing the living in its entirety towards a premature end.

Bio

Guy Woueté (Douala, Cameroon, 1980), he studied sculpture and painting in Douala and was a resident at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. He graduated at the University of Paris 8 as well as from École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels, where he currently teaches.

His work always encompasses elements of social criticism, questions surrounding borders, migration and symbols of domination in an era of globalization. Colonial past of his country plays a major role in his work. Using history as a source of material, Woueté aims to break down conventional attitudes which nourish racism, discriminations, paternalism and alienation in all its forms.

Through the process of recording the real, Woueté creates objects, images and performative acts that are part of a network of multiple meanings. Evoking the North South axis of the world and exploring the traces of (colonial) history in the present, his works open narrative of social issues and aesthetic. He collects moments and things of experiences that blends in collages, installation, performance, video, photography as well as sculpture, painting and artist’s books.

His work has been exhibit at many museums and art events such us the University of Fine Arts (Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam), S.M.A.K (Gent, Belgium), Beursschouwburg (Brussels, Belgium), the De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, the Netherlans), the Biennale of African Photography (Bamako, Malí), the Lubumbashi Biennale (Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo), the National Museum Yaoundé (Yaoundé, Cameroon), the Biennales of Dak’Art (Dakar, Senegal), the Enough Room for Space (Drogenbos, Belgium) and the Spazzju Kreattiv (Valletta, Malta) among others.