Bili Bidjocka

Bili Bidjocka

Bili Bidjocka at the Mantua Literature Festival
Born Douala Cameroon
Nationality Cameroonian
Known for Sculpture Plastic arts
Notable work L'écriture infinie

Bili Bidjocka (born 1962) is a contemporary Cameroonian artist best known for his installations and sculptures. He was born in Douala, Cameroon, lives in France since the age of 12, and works in Paris, Brussels and New York.[1]

Biography

Bili Bidjocka has attended numerous collectives and he has shown in the Biennale of Johannesburg (1997), Havana (1997), Biennale Dakar (2000), Taipei (2004) and Venice Biennale (inside Check List - Luanda Pop, 2007 curated by Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami); he has exhibited his works in the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York and in the exposition Africa Remix (Düsseldorf, London, Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg, 2005–2007). He founded and directed the contemporary Art Center Matrix Art Project in Brussels.

Works

L'écriture infinie

L'écriture infinie is a work of Bili Bidjocka. It aims to write the biggest collection of handwritten books of the world, because the new technologies causes the progressive extinction and replaces the handwritten writing because .

It consist of a series of books with 6000 white pages, 104 cm long and 100 kg. The artist declares that the public is invited to write - as it was the last thing to do before the cut of a hand. The founder act is the writing act in itself and not the reading after. Each book, once done, is packed into a linen material. The idea is that these books will be opened in the day where writing will not exist anymore. There is now existing 7 books of the work; one participated at the Venice Biennale inside the exhibition Check List - Luanda Pop.

Other works

Exhibitions

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Africa Remix: Bili Bidjocka". Universes in Universe web site. Archived from the original on 2 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-11.

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