“In flow I dissolve; the painting is what remains.”
Artist Statement
“Each canvas carries the afterimage of immersion, the residue of an inner state. In that current the ego recedes; what is left is pure movement and presence. The surface does not depict but emanates — contemplative, meditative, transformative rather than decorative. Figures hover at thresholds, edges breathe in and out, unfinished passages hold their own truth. I paint because I must surrender to that dissolution, and the work is the only trace of having been there.”
Ndoema is an artist whose life and practice span continents. Her debut series, Prima Materia, establishes a distinct position within the contemporary figurative revival. Entirely self-taught, she extends the Venetian–Baroque tradition of colorito into a contemporary key: prismatic warms and cools replace local color; edges dissolve and reassemble with Sargent-like precision. Thematic through-lines—hands at the threshold, mirrored faces, figures caught in suspension—convey vulnerability and emergence as existential states.
Her multidisciplinary background in photography, fashion, and film translates into a cinematic handling of light, color, and composition, yielding canvases that feel both painterly and filmic. With brushwork that alternates between satin glazes and declarative accents, Ndoema’s work resonates in kinship with masters from Rembrandt to Van Gogh, Schiele to Velázquez, while asserting a singular painterly voice poised at the debut of a larger oeuvre.
Pronunciation
Ndoema [en-DOY-mah]
Lives & Works
Lived in
New York, USA
Los Angeles, USA
Paris, France
Geneva, Switzerland
Madrid, Spain
Florence, Italy
Venice, Italy
Bocas del Toro, Panama
Bangkok, Thailand
Lilongwe, Malawi
Ganeshpuri, India
Bali, Indonesia
Education
Université Jean Monnet Paris XI — Law
École Supérieure des Hautes Études Internationales, Paris — International Relations & Diplomatic Studies
Institut de Management et de Communication Interculturels, Paris
European Erasmus Scholar — International Law, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva — Master’s in International Law
Preliminary PhD thesis in International Law, Public Health & Women’s Rights