Brussels, 2025

– 819 baked clay sculptures - red earthenware

The Faces Collection is the second part of the project Feitiço. It is a fiction that retraces the story of a collection of miniature masks from Congo, belonging to a private collector in Louvain-la-Neuve. Like an archaeologist, the traces left by these objects allow me to reconstruct their histories, raising questions related to the theft of artifacts, to the fetishization of masks, and the sacralizing museum displays attributed to them.

Project realized within the framework of the RAVI residency – Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International – Liège, 2025

– 12 digital photographs
– video 4’53 / ov: Dgéba / st: French

L’Immeuble aux Planteurs is a multifaceted project engaging with two colonial statues located on boulevard Léopold 40 in Liège. Created in 1878 by Michel Decoux, these figures — a planter and a harvester — each missing a hand, embody the symbolic violence of colonial history in public space and the surrounding silence. From these absences, Anna Safiatou reconstructs the missing hands in raw clay, initiating a fictional narrative between physical and moral repair.