Larkin Durey is delighted to present Memento Vivere, the artist’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery. Marc Padeu works with the tradition of narrative painting, employing the language and stories of the Old Masters and Christianity to depict contemporary Cameroon and the continuing legacy of colonialism.

In “New Dawn”, a poem from Men of All Continents written to celebrate the dawn of independence and creative freedoms, Dadié proclaims “the time of the child’s dream.” He calls for a revitalisation of ancient forms of expression and popular dreamworlds within the New City imagined by earlier generations: a way of invoking an alternative modernity.