Born in Cameroon in 1998, Pare obtained his professional license in plastic arts from the Foumban Institute of Fine Arts. His early works involved the reinterpretation of images taken from fashion magazines. At the same time, in more recent pieces, he attempts to reimagine historical masterpieces of Western painting, such as Jan van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait” and Édouard Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergere.” Pare borrows the essential compositional structure of these masters’ paintings, but replaces the figures and objects depicted therein with elements derived from African culture. The result does not boil down to a mere affirmation of Western culture. The objects portrayed in Western painting function symbolically, representing various meanings and significances. The substitutions that take place between the original paintings and Pare’s reinterpretations are not simply of form and color. All of the cultural contexts bound to the objects in those works are also replaced at the same time.