Koyo Kouoh: Not a Footnote, but a Shift in Power.
Koyo Kouoh: Not a Footnote, but a Shift in Power The art world loves grand gestures. Grand halls, grand names, grand egos, grand budgets — and, when convenient, a thin layer of progressiveness on top. And then came Koyo Kouoh. Not as a decorative “diverse choice.” Not as a polite correction to a white, male canon. But as someone who entered the centre of power with knowledge, precision, international authority and an entirely different compass. Koyo Kouoh was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1967. She grew up between Cameroon and Switzerland and later worked from several worlds at once: African, European, international, but never neatly reducible to one identity. That also shaped her way of seeing. She did not think...