Image courtesy Académie des beaux-arts x Cité internationale des arts.
Ludovic Nkoth and Moses Sumney onFaith, Fulfillment, and Finding Home
Since his early childhood in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Ludovic Nkoth has always made art to make sense of the world around him. Now that the Paris-based painter finds himself in demand across continents, he’s grappling with the idea of belonging more than ever. After completing a residency with the Académie des Beaux-arts this summer, he’s moved on to two back-to-back solo exhibitions of his rich, satiny portraits of Black life: The Is of It, opening this weekend at François Ghebaly in downtown L.A. and What If, opening October 16th at Le Corbusier’s airy Maison La Roche in Paris. To make sense of it all, Nkoth joined his confidant Moses Sumney, who just embarked on a Canadian tour with Daniel Caesar, over Zoom, where they delved into life in the Carolinas, spirituality, and what it means to find home.—MEKALA RAJAGOPAL