Marcelline Mandeng Nken

born in Yaounde, Cameroun in 1993. lives in New Haven and works between there and Philadelphia (remotely). Marcelline Mandeng Nken creates performance driven immersive installations built on a series of inversions including shifts in environmental scale, casting the audience as performing agents and the use of organic elements to measure the passage of time.Her work re-evaluates the value of labor production within the semiotics of desire, access to cultural heritage and human transfiguration, weaving together obscure historical references with symbolic materials appropriated from holistic and herbal traditions of care found in African-based spiritual systems. She sees her practice as an evolving archive that expands traditional constructions of female subjectivity in mass media and popular culture.