BIO

A bit About Abdou
Exhibitions
2019
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Art for Change Event; Kill Fear, Yaounde Cameroon.
2023
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A Home Group Exhibition, Curated by and for Michaelis students, Cape Town.
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Eve, Youngblood Group Exhibition, Cape Town.
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Peace Symposium Group Exhibition (an Art for Peace Commission), Japan Institute, Cape Town.
2024
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Portraits and Landscapes, Group Exhibition, Youngblood Africa, Cape Town.
Ronald Abdou, often known as Ronald Ngum or Abdou Kiloh, is a young emerging multimedia artist from Cameroon, Completing his BAFA in Michaelis School of Fine Art, South Africa in 2023. As a multimedia artist, his practice encompasses; paintings, photography, video art, film, sculpture and sculptural installations. Predominantly, he explores the different forms of knowledge that define who people are and how they interact with the world. These reflections extend from his personal life experience to communal experiences and cultural tensions that exist within human spaces.
These concepts spring from his earliest experiences navigating two cultures; his father being English-speaking Cameroonian and mother being French-speaking Cameroonian. Accentuating this experience was the melange of the Christian and Islam faiths within his family, with him carrying a Muslim name but born into the Christian faith. Ergo, the awareness of difference, cultural, religious, and language were nurtured from a young age. In exploring different forms of knowledge that exist within the world, his work engages with the complexities of being human, socio-cultural hierarchies that define individuals and spaces. With this also comes an investigation of borders and human limitations