Daleu died at her home in Senegal on 9 November 2018, following an illness.[6]
Career
In 2006, Daleu was part of a collective of artists who travelled from Douala to Dak'art, exploring how to revitalise art education in Cameroon along the way.[7] This project was called Exit Tour and the group travelled overland, meeting people and working with artists and students along the way.[8] This trip came out of work at ArtBakery, an organisation to encourage artists in Cameroon.[7] Working with and within communities became an important part of Daleu's practice.[9]
For Daleu, involvement with ArtBakery changed her practice from working on decorative art to exploring the aesthetics of imperfect places like Bessengué City.[10] Sometimes her work was drawn directly to the walls of the spaces she was exploring.[11] This led to collage and photography becoming hallmarks of Daleu's artistic practice.[10] A residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam produced work with attempted to "unpeel the skin of things".[12] Her work has been exhibited in Germany,[13] in Switzerland,[14] and in Italy.[15]
The World Bank sponsored an exhibition of work by Cameroonian artists in 2014, and Daleu was one of those featured.[5] She produced a new series entitled Architextures urbaines et Les introuvables. The work "Les introuvables" is a series of 8 photos printed on canvas that has been exhibited during the forth edition of SUD Salon Urbain de Douala in 2017.[16]
In 2018, Daleu was one of the artists commissioned by Videoart at Midnight festival of video art in Berlin.[17] The artist Antje Majewski collaborated with Daleu on a new installation called Le Trône, where video and painting explore German colonial legacies in the Cameroon.[18] She also exhibited at Dak'art in 2018.[19]
^Schemmel, Annette (2015). Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. p. 221. ISBN978-9956-763-99-3. OCLC950196045.
^Forni, Silvia; Malaquais, Dominique (2018-09-02). "Village Matters, City Works: Ideas, Technologies, and Dialogues in the Work of HervÉ Youmbi". Critical Interventions. 12 (3): 294–305. doi:10.1080/19301944.2018.1532380. ISSN1930-1944. S2CID202402930.
^ abSchemmel, Annette (2015). Visual arts in Cameroon : a genealogy of non-formal training, 1976-2014. Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG. p. 238. ISBN978-9956-763-99-3. OCLC950196045.
^"Ginette Daleu". urbanscénos (in French). 2014-05-05. Retrieved 2020-02-26.
^Pensa, Iolanda; Pucciarelli, Marta; Douala Bell, Marilyn; Nibbeling, Xandra; Siegenthaler, Fiona; Adukaite, Asta; De la Chapelle, Maud; Verschuren, Kamiel; Grandin, Lucas (2017). Public Art in Africa. Art et transformations urbaines à Douala /// Art and Urban Transformations in Douala. Genève: MetisPresses. p. 196. ISBN978-2-94-0563-16-6.