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Bili
Bidjocka's works consist of art installations, sculptures and conceptual projects. After a period of painting, he realizes installations adopting writing as an integral part of his work. His work acts like a puzzle, a riddle that gives the artist the answers he needs about the sense of his art.
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is another work by Bili
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In 1975, Bidjocka and his family move to Paris where he studied at the Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. In 1985, he is co-founder of the Parisian underground association Les Frigos, aiming to support creative talent. Starting in 1994, as an artist and as a curator, he works on several
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in New York, a platform of production and experimentation. Between 1998 and 2007, he supervises the Matrix Art
Project contemporary art center in Brussels, where he lives in those years. In 2007, Bidjocka moves back to Paris.
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Cameroonian processions and ceremonies characterize his work, adopting metaphors to make the artist think about loss and absence, on the one hand, and about ecstasy and suspended desire, on the other.
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