Mimi Cherono Ng’ok / Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2019
Mimi Cherono Ng’ok was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1983. Currently based in Nairobi, she studied Photography at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 2006.Her work explores intimacy, loss, memory and the sentimental. Her influences include her good friend Paul Maheke, Dineo Seshee Bopape, and the Muppet show. She loves whales and elephants. For the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Cherono Ng’ok will continue her research on a missing Kenyan student from the 70s and the gaps present in historical records. In 2017, as a Magnum Foundation grantee, the artist produced a zine based on the student’s disappearance, containing images sourced from the Mohammed Amin Archive in Nairobi, as well as weather reports, collages of old archival images and text; creating a story of absence. For the second chapter of the project, she wishes to tell the story via writing, cinema and sound. From a script to a soundtrack, Cherono Ng’ok aims to prepare for the production of a short film expanding on her research. During her stay in Paris, the artist intends to visit historical archives containing images and films from different countries in the global South for the period of 1971-1979, as well as meeting with artists, historians, writers and filmmakers.
- Cyanotype made by Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2019
- 3 puppets made by Mimi Cherono Ngok , During the workshop, Compagnie Le Doryphore, Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2019
- Super 8 workshop , How to edit films, Atelier de cinéma expérimental L’Etna, 2019
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