Born in 1997 in Douala, Cameroon
Laura Tolen grew up in Douala, Cameroon,
before enrolling at the Beaux-Arts de Paris where she graduated in 2020. The
same year, she participated in the collective exhibition ArtuElles
Interférences at Galerie Annie Kadji in Douala. Her texts and drawings were
featured in several publications. She works on the construction and
transmission of memory that she approaches through her favourite media, drawing
and oil paints. From family pictures or photographs she takes herself, she
reconstructs in her drawings a family history half-real, half-fictional,
juxtaposing in the same space locations and characters that never met in real
life. This reconstruction of memories and past events questions objectivity and
the reliability of memory.
