CHARLOTTE YONGA

Lives and works in Barcelona

Born in 1985

French-Cameroonian artist based between Paris and Barcelona, Charlotte Yonga creates a multidisciplinary body of work combining photography, drawing, and installation. Her practice explores identity, otherness, and displacement, revealing the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength. With a dramaturgical approach, she challenges dominant narratives and redefines representation through Black, feminine, and African perspectives…Read more

Charlotte Yonga creates a multidisciplinary body of work combining photography, drawing, and installation. Her practice explores identity, otherness, and displacement, revealing the delicate balance between vulnerability and strength.

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Exhibitions

Carte Blanche

"The encounter with the world goes through the hands," Henri Guette recently wrote about Dalila Dalléas Bouzar. Everything in her house starts from the body and the gesture: a line that connects, a color that asserts itself, a space that transforms. Whether it's performances, embroidery or great paintings, the Algerian artist explores....Read more

Galerie Hamid Khellafi

Memoria : récits d’une autre Histoire

Naam Na La + Le sel, le vent

The exhibition Naam Na La + Le sel, le vent by Charlotte Yonga explores intimate forms of love through a series of photographic works created between Europe and West Africa. Blending personal narrative with poetic imagery, it reflects on relationships, distance, and emotional landscapes shaped by travel and memory....Read more

Le Zef

Fondation H

Memoria : récits d’une autre Histoire

The exhibition Memoria: récits d’une autre Histoire explores themes of memory, identity, and fragmented histories through photography and installation. Her work weaves together personal and collective narratives, offering alternative perspectives on heritage, displacement,...Read more

Artworks