Marijah Bac Cam

Marijah Bac Cam was born in Laos in 1974, then grew up in the Paris region before finally settling in the Gard department in 2005. A painter, draughtswoman, video artist and photographer, Marijah Bac Cam is a truly multidisciplinary artist. Marijah Bac Cam's work questions the Memory of the Living through the Languages of the Feminine Principle (Nature's creative principle) by means of drawing, painting and, increasingly, photography and video. What is the meaning of this chaos of fullness and emptiness, enhanced by dots, curves, golden lines and gestural writing? In the artist's paintings, we perceive a living being organizing itself before our eyes, starting with the diffusion of black ink. These sinking masses blend with another color to symbolize the different elements: air, water, fire, earth, ether. Suddenly, an organic mesh forms on the surface, linked to the misty depths. It's a question of turning around, as if to draw our gaze towards an inner world, that of the organs, tissues, and vessels of an unrepresented body. These drawings express more sensitively an intuitive word in a vegetal and vibratory atmosphere that are our buried memories. They represent the original past in a metaphorical rather than mental form. Graffiti sometimes floats here and there, palimpsest-like, as if to inscribe a forgotten verbal dimension and question the meaning of forms. Her work evokes images that are almost figurative but difficult to identify. It's a question of each person's point of view, whether seen from the sky or from underwater, in macro or even wide shots. This collective memory seems to define and recount both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial landscapes. Could Nature have a universal language hidden in our memory?