Ndjantou Boris Sculptor

Project management and set-up, negotiation, customer relations, ingineer in petroleum, communication, Public Relations (RP) and Social Networks (RS), interior and exterior design... My career is rich in unique and varied professional experiences, both technical and artistic. What they have in common is that they have gradually brought me back to wood, the material of my early childhood and adolescence in Cameroon, in the tropical forest of the Congo Basin, the second largest forest on the planet.
For over 10 years, I've been involved in a number of sustainable development initiatives. My personal commitment, and my artistic and craft work open up a constructive and positive constructive and positive thinking that challenges everyone to take care of ourselves and our environment.

French-Cameroonian self-taught sculptor. Nowadays my artistic work highlights the singularity and subjectivity of my journey from my native Cameroon to my new home in France. I explore my double culture at the crossroads between Bamileke cosmogony and Western cosmology. One is borrowed from spirituality and utopia,the other from materiality and physical reality...

My artistic work and my research are therefore centred on the Bamiléké cosmogony, a people from whom I originate in Cameroon.
According to my research, this people originated to Balaji people from Egypt and undertook a long journey that led them to Cameroon. They first travelled up the Nile, then crossed part of the Sahel before arriving in the high plains of Cameroon.
Their culture, their art and their language are all impregnated by this journey, which has influenced all their aesthetic and symbolic representations.
I am the bearer of this message, but I am also the bearer of the message of my emigration from my native Cameroon, which gave rise to my blossoming as a black man in France and Europe. I have also been enriched by various experiences in the global North, whether technical, artistic, aesthetic or symbolic.
Today, I explore the duality of which I am the cultural and natural receptacle, a duality between a kind of "utopy show" VS "reality show", between time and the hour. Questionning of Bamileke cosmogony through the architecture, relation to danger, writting and language.
My woodwork is resolutely eco-responsible and open to the world. My inspirations are diverse, drawing on Eastern, Asian, European and African aesthetics. I take particular care to respect wood as a natural material, without adding chemical inputs, while playing with textures, tones and effects...