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About The Artist

Philomène Amougou (29/11/1996)

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Paris-born with Cameroonian roots, Philomène is a full-media artist who channels natural forces through her work and own body. Irrigated in the Earth like a seed in the soil, which grows from the river and sun, Philomène aligns herself with the eternal feminine. Energy is a boundless material grounded by science and the belief that universal energy runs throughout everything. From plants, insects to humankind’s need for introspection, she create as if to dig to the earth’s core and reconcile the fertile and destructive forces as the very dynamic of life. Understanding biodiversity as a way to explore the evolution of form, the seed of her work evolves through an ‘embryonic germination’. This process starts by drawing and painting, and runs through sculpture, installation and performance. Photography and filmmaking are the final stage, connecting the cells of her art. 

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Trough a spinal thread that intertwine connection between geology, biology, anatomy, spirituality and technology; one may view her body of work as leaving in its own mythological world, yet proves the dilemmas and traumas that shape our time. Based on the biological imbalance she sees between the environment and society, Philomène explore themes such as feminine identity, life, death and rebirth with a grounding sense of place and belonging toward our nature.

 

Philomène performances often transcend the use of her own body as a living sculpture to re-enact the divine cycle of creation. By interweaving the female body with the land and its elements, she represent Mother nature as a living force, a biodiverse system with observable mutations and alienations. 

 

As an afro-European artist influenced by cultural rituals, ceremonies, and meditative techniques contrasted with relics of our mechanical World, Philomène continuously merges the spiritual and physical experience and re-cycled technologies to encourage a connective and sensed encounter. 

Philomène art, is synonymous of Utopian Alchemy, juxtaposing ancestral traditions from African culture with fragments of Western futuristic modernity; An eco-Synthetic science fiction remedy. Pollock Fine Art, London*

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