Winnie Songmene Dorothé, visual artist born in 1995 in western Cameroon. She joined the Foumban Institute of Fine Arts in 2013 from which she graduated with a degree in Sculpture and a Master’s degree in Drawing-painting. Quite reserved and hermit-like in nature, sensitive and reflexive, who quite often undergoes the pangs of existential questions, such as manipulating, manufacturing, associating, transforming are actions that allow it to calm down, to find a balance… She was followed by the art historian and artist Afane Belinga, and attended the studio of the artist Hervé Youmbi as well as the Art-kéo workshops. As part of the Annie Kadji Art Discovery program residency (2022), she works with the artist Maurice Lapegoué who helps her enrich her expressiveness. From a work representative of human complexity that has become an inner journey with a concern for exalting subjectivity, for unveiling; she finds in the spontaneity of the pictorial and sometimes sculptural gesture, ways and means of speaking about our being in the world, our being in the world with a focus on the invisible in a perspective of questioning, of expression of the interior life, of exaltation of pathos, of affect and the desire to communicate it. For the What Water exhibition she expresses: “Even if it is difficult to admit, in our society and especially in Africa, women are almost as essential as water which is life.”