ALIDA YMELE

plastic artist from Cameroon

Alida Ymélé (1994-) is a Cameroonian artist born in Dschang in the West of Cameroon. She started to create at a very young age against the advice of her family. Her first ambition was to go into fashion design to ensure a manual practice without knowing the existence of a school of Fine Arts. Determined, she entered the Institute of Fine Arts of Nkongsamba from which she graduated with a master's degree in 2019.

Alida Ymélé's universe questions the permanent injustices that housewives experience. For her, her invisibilized women are heroines that it is necessary to put forward, to rehumanize. Indeed, she cannot but notice the violence with which these people are treated. This fight comes to her from her early childhood when she can read her mother's profession of housewife on her birth certificate, while society teaches her that this work does not really exist, is worth nothing.