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Afran's Solo Exhibition:È>mc2 WELCOME TO THE PARADISE 

Spanning across three rooms of the MA-EC Gallery, Afran's exhibition unfolds like a symposium, encompassing paintings, sculptures, and installations.

In the first room, acrylic paintings on canvas will be displayed, narrating the paradoxes and perspectives achieved by a world in constant flux in a manner that is both ironic and surreal. In recent years, technological progress and the developments in social media have profoundly impacted our societies, enhancing them in many aspects. The paintings presented playfully delve into possible degenerations, focusing on the extreme attention, or rather, obsession with beauty, image, and appearance. Our social media feeds are flooded with increasingly beautiful images... If that were the beauty Dostoevsky spoke of, our world would have long been saved.

Francis Nathan Abiamba, known as Afran, is a Cameroonian sculptor, painter, and performer born in 1987. Since 2009, he has been living and working in Italy in the province of Lecco. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions across Africa, Europe, and America and has received several international and national awards, including the San Fedele Visual Arts Award and the Liliana Nocera Prize from the Permanente of Milan. The environmental and identity issues of our contemporary society have always been at the core of his investigations. In addition to denim, his preferred material, the artist imposes no technical limits on himself to best convey the complexity and contradictions of this era marked by radical changes. He has many projects and exhibitions to his credit, including the recent ones: "Denim – stylish, practical, timeless. Blue fabric with a history" at the Spielzeug Welten Museum in Basel; "Pei's world. A brief history of a Chinese Gallery in Italy," curated by Luca Beatrice, at the Arsenale di Venezia, Spazio Thetis.

Afran is among the artists who will represent the National Pavilion of Cameroon at the upcoming Venice Biennale in 2022.