Goddy Leye

Goddy Leye (24 Ɔbɛnem 1965 wɔ Mbouda, Cameroon – 19 Ɔpɛpɔn 2011 wɔ Bonendale, Cameroon)^[1]^[2] yɛ Cameroonni adwumfo ne onyansafoɔ.

N’adwuma no twe adwene si video ahorow, installations, conceptual art ne theoretical contributions so. Ɔno na ɔhyehyɛɛ adwinni beaeɛ ArtBakery a ɛwɔ Bonendale, Cameroon na na ɔyɛ adwinni ne amanaman ntam nnwuma a ɛfa beaeɛ pɔtee bi ho no sohwɛfoɔ ne nea ɔhyɛ ho nkuran. Na ne dwumadi no yɛ ade titiriw wɔ amammerɛ ne adwinni mu wɔ Cameroon ne amanaman ntam.

Asetra ne adwuma

Wɔwoo Goddy Leye (edin ankasa Godfried Kadjo) wɔ 24 Ɔbɛnem 1965 wɔ Mbouda, Cameroon. Onyaa ne adansedi krataa wɔ ntoaso sukuu bi a wɔka kasa abien mu wɔ 1989 mu na osuaa Afrika nhoma ne kasa ho adesua wɔ Yaoundé Sukuupɔn mu wɔ 1986 ne 1991 ntam hɔ. Wɔ afe 1990 mu no, onyaa ne master’s wɔ Afrika nhoma mu. N’adwinni ntetee fii ase wɔ 1987 mu wɔ mfoniniyɛfo ne adwinni ho abakɔsɛm kyerɛwfo Pascal Kenfack nkyɛn wɔ Yaoundé kosii 1992.^[3] Ɔtoaa ne nteteeɛ so wɔ afe 1994 mu wɔ Ɔman Adwini Asoɛeɛ a ɛwɔ Bamako, wɔ afe 1997 mu wɔ ZKM Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media wɔ Germany, wɔ afe 1999 mu wɔ 18th Street Arts Complex wɔ Santa Monica, California ne afe 2002 ne 2002 ntam wɔ Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten wɔ Amsterdam.^[4]^[5] Wɔ Netherlands no ɔne obi bom de sika boa na ɔbɛyɛ Rijksakademie International Network (RAIN), adwumfo kuw bi a wɔboa nnɛyi amammerɛ nneyɛe wɔ aman a wofi mu no muni.^[6] Titiriw esiane n’anigye a ɔwɔ sɛ ɔbɛboa adwinni nneyɛe nti, Leye san kɔɔ Douala wɔ afe 2002 mu kɔyɛɛ adwinni beae ArtBakery wɔ Bonendale, a wɔde wɔn ho ama titiriw sɛ ɛbɛma adwinni ntetee ne nsakrae a ɛba adwumfo ntam no ayɛ mmerɛw na wɔaboa multimedia, installations, video ne digital art.^[7]

Wɔ afe 2002 mu no na ɔyɛ adwuma no sohwɛfo Bessengue City, adwumayɛbea ne adwinni adwuma ahorow a ɛfa beae pɔtee bi ho wɔ Bessengue mpɔtam hɔ wɔ Douala; adwuma no fa Goddy Leye, James Beckett, Hartanto, Jesus Palomino ne mpɔtam hɔfo ka ho. Wɔ afe 2006 mu no ɔhyɛɛ Exit Tour ho nkuran na ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ mu. Wɔ afe 2007 mu no ɔboaa Ars ne Urbis Adwumayɛbea a wɔhyehyɛɛ wɔ Douala denam doual'art so de siesiee SUD Salon Urbain de Douala na na ɔwɔ tenabea wɔ Blachère Foundation wɔ Apt, France. Wɔ afe 2008 mu no na ɔwɔ tenabea wɔ Gasworks amammerɛ beaeɛ a ɛwɔ London;^[8] wɔ afe 2009 mu no ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ adwuma a ɛne Image Art After mu wɔ nkɔmmɔdie mu ne Florence Ayisi na ɔboaa wɔ Cairo Residency Symposium.^[9]^[10]

Leye adwuma no nyaa nkonimbo fii UNESCO, Rockefeller Foundation ne Dutch Amannɔne Nsɛm Ho Dwumadibea hɔ.^[4]^[11] Sɛ́ mfoniniyɛfo ne onyansafo no, ɔde ne ho hyɛɛ animdefo boayikuw ahorow pii mu; na ɔyɛ Africa Center a ɛwɔ Cape Town no adwene kuw no muni na na ɔyɛ CAN (Creative Africa Network)^[12] ananmusifo.

Adwuma

Leye fii ase yɛɛ adwuma sɛ mfoniniyɛfo wɔ afe 1992 mu.^[3] Na n’adwuma no twe adwene si nkae, Afrika atubrafo akyi ne abakɔsɛm a wɔkyekyee so. Nea ɛkɔ akyiri no ɔdaa ne ho adi denam multimedia adwuma, video ne video a wɔde ahyɛ mu so. Bere kɔɔ so no, ofii ase de ne ho hyɛɛ nnwuma ahorow a wɔyɛ mu kɛse wɔ Cameroon ne amanaman ntam nyinaa. Ɔboaa nhoma ahorow, ɔyɛɛ na ɔhwɛɛ adwinni ahorow a ɛfa beae pɔtee bi ho na ɔhyehyɛɛ mfinimfini ArtBakery. Mfinimfini no de nnwinnade ne nhyehyɛe ma adwumfo a wɔn ani gye multimedia productions ho na ɛyɛ nea ɛda nsow wɔ dwuma a ɛyɛ nnam wɔ ntetee mu. Na Cameroonfo mfoniniyɛfo a wɔtraa ase wɔ n’awo ntoatoaso mu ne nea ennu saa no bu Leye sɛ mfoniniyɛfo ne onyansafo titiriw.^[2]

Leye daa n’adwene adi wɔ akwan a wɔfa so ka abakɔsɛm ne nimdeɛ a wɔde ma na wɔn werɛ fi denam n’adwinni, nkyerɛwee ne ne ho a ɔde hyɛ nhyiam akɛse ne adwene ho akuw mu denneennen so. Ne nsusuwii mu mmoa no twee adwene sii amammerɛ ahyehyɛde ahorow nhyehyɛe so, nkitahodi nhyehyɛe ahorow, adwinni ne amammerɛ nneyɛe so ne nkurow akɛse mu nsakrae so.^[1]

Video ahorow ne nneɛma a wɔde ahyɛ mu

Na Lingi Yo, 2007^[13]
Sankofa River, 1997
We Are the World, video, 2006^[13]
Elections, UCA project, 2007^[13]
Honey Moon
Avis sur Visage, video installation, 2007
The Beautiful Beast, video installation^[5]
Stickers and Wall, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004
Dancing With the Moon, video installation, 2003^[13]
Reel Location, video, 2002
The Walking Mirror, video, 2001
Visa-je, video installation, 2000^[13]
The Voice of the Moon, video installation
Collaboration with Collectif Auto Da Fe, No Art on Two Dollars A Day, video. Video made from the performance made during SUD Salon Urbain de Douala 2007.

Nneɛma a wɔde kyerɛ obiakofo

Fiction ou realite?, Fri'Art, Fribourg, 2003
Dancing with the Moon, doual'art, Douala, 2003
Goddy Leye, Icba Gallery, Salvador de Bahia, 2001
Sankofa Blues, doual'art, Douala, 2000
Sankofa Blues, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1999
Behind the Scenes, Electronic Cafe International, Santa Monica, US/on Internet, 1999
Sankofa River, doual'art, Douala, 1999
Sankofa, French Cultural Centre, Douala, Douala, 1999
Sankofa Video, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1999
Fouilles Sauvages, doual'art, Douala, 1996
Bois Sacré, Goethe institute, Yaoundé, 1995
Bois Sacré, Ifa, 1995

Kuw mu nneɛma a wɔde kyerɛ

Wɔde Goddy Leye adwuma no kyerɛ wɔ afahyɛ ahorow pii ne amanaman ntam ɔyɛkyerɛ ahorow mu.^[14]

Breaking News. Contemporary Photography from the Middle East and Africa, Ex Ospedale Sant'Agostino, Modena, 2010
SUD PARIS, Maison Revue Noire, Paris, 2010^[15]
Cameroonian Touch.2 – doual'art, Douala, 2010
This is now 1 & 2 – L'appartement 22, 1st Johannesburg Art Fair, 2088 and Rabat, 2009
Prêt-à-pARTager, Mode-Fotografie-Workshop, curated by IFA Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Dakar, 2008 (touring exhibition)^[16]
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, 2007
Ba Mama, Galerie Mam, Douala, 2007
Contemporary Vision, The World Bank, Yaoundé, 2007
Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006
Exit Tour, Douala, Cotonou, Lomé, Accra, Ouagadougou, Bamako, Dakar, 2006, promoted by ArtBakery.
Africa Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2004
New, Netwerk galerij, Aalst, 2003
Unesco laureates, 18th street arts complex, Santa Monica, USA, 2003
Post-border land, SBK, Amsterdam, 2003
Nuits métis, la Ciota, 2003
Electromediascope, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2002
Slow, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
Rendez-vous at Xiamen, Chinese European Art centre, Xiamen, 2002
Nuits métis, la Ciota, 2002
Videoformes 2002, Clermont-Ferrand, 2002. Presentation of the video The Walking Mirror.
Right 2 fight, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, 2002
Sao Paulo Biennial, Blick Wechsel, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002
Playtime, Johannesburg, 2002
Bili Bidjocka / Goddy Leye, Espace Doual'Art, Douala, Cameroon, 2001
BlickWechsel, IFA-Galerie, Berlin, 2001
Lucarne, Goethe-Institut, Yaounde, Cameroon, 2001
BlickWechsel, Bonn and IFA-Galerie Stuttgart, 2000
Total Global, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Bale, 2000
Havana Biennial, Havana, 2000
Dak'Art 2000, Biennale de l'Art contemporain africain, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, 2000
South Meets West, Berne, 2000
Boulev'Art, Cotonou, 2000
Sept des cents derniers jours, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 2000
Lille 2000, Lille, 2000
South Meets West, Accra, 1999
Dream, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1999
Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stuttgart, 1998
Dak'art 98, Dakar Biennale, Dakar, 1998
Fenac 98 Festival national de l'Art et de la Culture, Ebolowa, 1998
L'Art entre Tradition et Globalisation, Goethe-Institut, Yaoundé, 1997
Le Kwatt, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1997
Babil 2, Espace Doual'art, Douala, 1997
Resource Art Cameroon, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, 1996
Cameroon Art, Galeria Arte Mondo, Sarrano, 1996
Africa Unite, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, 1996
Nouvelles Tendances de la Peinture camerounaise, Galerie Africréa, Yaoundé, 1996
Babil, Goethe-Institute, Yaoundé, 1995
Taxi-couleurs, ERBA Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts, Angers, 1995
Fenac 94, Douala, 1994
Taxi-Couleurs, CCF-INA, Bamako, 1994
Festac 88 National Festival of Arts and Culture, Douala, 1988

Nsusuwii mu ntoboa ne curatorial adwuma

Goddy Leye boaa nhoma ne nsɛmma nhoma te sɛ Chimurenga nsɛmma nhoma. Ɔde nsi boaa nsɛmma nhoma DiARTgonale a mfoniniyɛfo Achilleka de sii hɔ no. Ɔno na ɔhyehyɛɛ ne kwankyerɛfoɔ wɔ mfimfini ArtBakery, hyɛɛ aseɛ wɔ afe 2002. Ɔno na ɔhwɛ adwuma a Bessengue City hyehyɛeɛ wɔ mpɔtam hɔ wɔ Bessengue wɔ Douala wɔ afe 2002 mu na ɔno na ɔhyɛɛ Exit Tour ho nkuran wɔ afe 2006 mu.

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[:2-1] 1.0 ^1.1 /, archived from the original on 2023-06-03, retrieved 2023-06-03

[:3-2] 2.0 ^2.1 https://africanfilmny.org/directors/goddy-leye/

[:1-3] 3.0 ^3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723180604/http://goddyleye.lecktronix.net/favorite_links_1.html

[:0-4] 4.0 ^4.1 https://18thstreet.org/artists/goddy-leye/

[:4-5] 5.0 ^5.1 http://www.galerie-herrmann.com/arts/leye/2009/index_engl.html

[6] ttp://www.r-a-i-n.net/

[7] ttp://www.r-a-i-n.net/projects/art+bakery/

[8] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20101204223257/http://www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=356

[9] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110724190346/http://www.crs.nu/Cairo_Residency_Symposium/Info_art_bakery.html

[10] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110726173217/http://imagineartafter.org/dialogues/dialogues-2009/goddy-leye-and-florence-ayisi/

[11] ttps://www.lowave.com/en/search?searchword=goddy%20leye&searchphrase=all

[12] ttps://www.researchgate.net/figure/Creative-Africa-Network-CAN-Design-Mediamatic-Community-Management_fig1_24113659

[:5-13] 13.0 ^13.1 ^13.2 ^13.3 ^13.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723180617/http://goddyleye.lecktronix.net/photo3_1.html

[14] ttp://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/goddy-leye-36662/profile.html

[15] ttp://www.revuenoire.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3564%3Asud-paris-oct-2010&catid=9%3AExhibitions&Itemid=17&lang=en

[16] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110719043414/http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-abroad/bk/pret-a-partager/goddy-leye/

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