In the context of the RAW Académie session 6 CURA, RAW Material Company invites you to "Ars & Urbis", a public lecture with Princesse Marilyn Douala Manga Bell on Wednesday April 3rd, 2019 at 6:00pm.

Princesse Marilyn presents the experience that doual’art has been developing in the city for 27 years, in close synergy with the inhabitants and the city (clusters in the city), has revealed multiple dimensions of art. We cannot be content in reducing art to matters of relationality, mediation, or aesthetics. Art in the urban public space is a political commitment, indeed it is primarily a political affair as it concerns municipal management and public affairs. And above all else it builds a reference point for identity, no longer of a community but of a collectivity that has the right, indeed the duty, to break free from the codes and forms of servitude.

About Princesse Marilyn Douala Manga Bell

Princess Marilyn Douala Manga Bell was born in Cameroon in 1957 into the Bell royal family. She completed a postgraduate degree in Development Economics at the University of Nanterre (France).

In 1991, she co-founded the contemporary art center doual'art with art historian Didier Schaub. The focus of doual’art is on new urban identities and the construction of citizenship through art, artistic intervention in urban space, education, and memory.