Appolinaire Guidimbaye was born in 1983 and grew up in N’Djamena. Even though in his hometown there was not an art school, his artistic family allowed him to acquire this taste and desire for creation. Appolinaire begin by experiment and create small paintings decorated with letters, puzzles in which he integrated animal images.
He decided to replace his name with DOFF as a “stage name”. He worked as a scenographer and worked for institutions as well as for exhibition organizers and he even decorated program sets for the television.
He campaigns to get Chad out of the cultural desert in which the country is stagnant and to denounce the ecological damage to its continent. As an answer to these major concerns, he created “FONDASIA” a collective whose major focus is the organization of international contemporary art meetings in Ndjamena.
In addition he tries to transmit his taste for creativity to childrens: he introduces them to the art of recycling while making them aware of environmental protection from materials
thrown in or abandoned in the streets.
He wants to show that Chad is not a country constantly at war. He embody a new generation of creators who carry the voice of a multi-ethnic society in love with culture and peace.