What distinguishes different cultures? What separates them, what links them? Yann Stéphane Bisso (*1998) engages in his paintings with his countries of origin, Cameroon, and France. The series Cooking Mama takes the so-called hunger protests in Cameroon in 2008 as its starting point, but the yellow vests movement in France is also discernible in it. The series points to the global trade of the foodstuffs industry and its impact on price rises, which affects the poorest all over the world. It contrasts these phenomena with the mother’s cooking pot, the very essence of homeliness and security.

In his landscape paintings Bisso makes intermediate worlds visible by allowing surreal elements to shine through, like in Magical Realism. His most recent works engage with the The Onlooker by Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody. They address the theme of the relationship between painting and sculpture, original and copy, as well as art and magic.

Bisso’s series Cooking Mama was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Special Prize, which facilitates both an solo exhibition and a first publication.