Bansoa Sigam
Switzerland; Cameroon
Bansoa Sigam is a Swiss curator and researcher of Cameroonian descent, inspired and fuelled both by African arts and heritage, and her multicultural upbringing. Her impactful contributions enrich the global discourse by offering valuable perspectives from the continent and the diaspora. Her double PhD in Art History and Cultural Geography centers African women’s heritage, which she refers to as “sheritage”, investigating museum spatiality and borders, and cultural and epistemic colonial translocations. She brings a profound understanding of the continent’s artistic traditions, cultural transfers, and women’s invisibilised presence and agency. In her latest exhibition space, “Dismembered-Remembered”, which showed at the Museum of Ethnography in Geneva (MEG), she delved into both historical and contemporary legacies of women’s resiliency and divine presence through material culture—bridging the works of artists Lafalaise Dion, Beya Gille Gacha and Paloma Lukumbi with those of historical figures, Nkamoheng and Tlalane, whose names thankfully subsisted in the mostly anonymous museum archives. With her research, writing, and exhibitions, Bansoa aims to uplift Black voices and contribute to community building and the co-creation of empowered futures.
