Marcelline Mandeng Nken is a video and performance installation artist born in Yaoundé, Cameroon who moved to the US at the age 11. She is based in New Haven and works remotely in Philadelphia as a creative partner with Deep Space Mind 215, a mental health and wellness cooperative. Marcelline’s work is a powerful exploration of the experiences of Black women, living in the margins of society, set against cinematic and mythic landscapes. Drawing from a matrilineal lineage of caretakers that includes medical service practitioners and holistic root workers, she is invested in economies of care as systems of value within the home, taught and inherited genetically as a birthright or a body memory carried from inside of the womb like the sound of our mother’s tongue or basic instructions on how to work the land.
She has exhibited works at Macao Milano in Milan, Trinity Square Video in Toronto, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, MoMA Ps1 in New York, and The Borscht Corporation in Miami. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is a current MFA candidate in Sculpture at Yale School of Art.
