1989, France, Clichy

The artistic practice of Soñ encompasses various modes of expression (music/sound – under the pseudonym SOÑXSEED), video, performance, installation, sculpture (ceramics), and collective practice, engaging with different past-present-future imaginaries (utopian, erotic, spiritual). It seeks freedom from social norms and harmony between humans and non-humans, the living and the non-living, the visible and the invisible, bridging two worlds. The artist composes with moving images, poetic writings, archival conversations, bodily gestures, fabrics, fruit and plant matter, herbs, as well as culinary moments.

In this perspective, the artist draws from their Cameroonian and Afro-diasporic cultural heritage, along with an Afrofeminist and queer intellectual environment, utilizing tools and materials to explore mechanisms of healing and survival, notions of intimacy, and joy from which they create immersive experiences.

Published in the anthology “Sex Ecologies” (2021, MIT Press) and Afrikadaa Magazine, Soñ continues their theoretical-poetic writing as part of their Ph.D. in Practice in Vienna.

They presented their solo exhibition “A Quiet Storm Blowin'” in Vienna in 2023 at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. Soñ Gweha’s works, DJ sets, and performances have been featured at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (“The Taste of Water,” 2022-23), Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Galeria Municipais de Portugal (“Sarah Maldoror, Cinema Tricontinental,” 2021-22), Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway (“Sex Ecologies,” 2021), Mumok in Vienna (2022), Arsenic-Lausanne (2022), La Station Culturelle in Martinique (2022), Bétonsalon in Paris (2020), Mostra des Artes Cênicas Negras in Porto Alegre (2020), Musée des Civilisations Noires in Dakar (2018), TU-Théâtre de l’Usine in Geneva (2020), Kaiku Club in Helsinki (2019), Magasin des horizons – CNAC Grenoble (2019), Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (2019), and Centre Pompidou (2017).

Soñ Gweha also contributed to the Afrocyberféminismes series at Gaîté Lyrique in Paris in 2018, co-created by Oulimata Gueye. The artist has been collaborating with the Swiss collective KitchensProsper since 2021 and with the magazine Atayé since 2016.