Brussels, 2025

– video game, approx. 30′ / ov: Dgéba / st: English or French

Orson Rouffignac: 3D design
June Ha: music & sound design
Marina Ashrafi: typography
Christie Dinganga & Anna Safiatou Touré: voice-over
Support: Roger de Conynck Fund

The Gamanké Museum presents a collection of Gamanké masks from the fictional country of Kanéma, using codes and aesthetics reminiscent of real museum displays. This project questions the role of the mask in European societies and institutions. The Gamanké Museum is accessible exclusively as a video game. 

Brussels, 2022

– 12 digital photographs

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 as part of the residency at the Carrefour des Arts Foundation – Brussels, 2024

– 102 red earthenware sculptures
– digital photographs of the sculptures
– video 10’ / ov: Dgéba / sub: French / Lucine Letassay: image and editing

Feitiço 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.

Brussels, 2020

– 8 prints on vellum paper with framing, 30 x 40 cm
– Herbier du département congolais des Serres royales de Laeken, Anna Safiatou Touré, NON-COUCHÉ collection no. 3, CFC x Iselp editions, 2024

L'Herbier... is a fictional reconstruction of an herbarium that could belong to the Congolese greenhouses of Laeken. This proposal is a response to the year-round inaccessibility of the greenhouses, the lack of plant inventory, the disappearance of Congolese species due to the Belgian climate, the colonial history of the building, and my interest in the plant as a political and living element that carries stories.

Brussels, 2020

– video, 10′

Orson Rouffignac: 3D modeling rendering
June Ha: sound design

Caldarium is a proposal for immersion at the heart of a section of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken. This emblematic building of Belgian heritage, created in 1873 by Alphonse Balat for King Leopold II, houses one of the largest collections of exotic plants in the world. The aim is not to highlight the exceptional nature of this building, but to interrogate its political status throughout history, as well as the role it still occupies today.

Brussels, 2021

– vidéo 11’ / ov: Dgéba / sub: English or French
– Mama Gnosové, 52-page edition, 13.5 x 20 cm, texts by Véronique Donnat (Paris, 2021)

Nénima is a sensory ballad that oscillates between my mother’s stories about Mali, the country of my birth, and the imagined universe I have constructed over time. It is an invitation to travel into an ambiguous space, on the border of reality, perhaps that of the child in its mother’s womb, imbued with sounds, atmospheres, and diffuse images experienced from within.

Project realized as part of the International Projections program of the Nantes School of Fine Arts – Dakar, 2019

– 1 digital photograph
– video 11’06 / sub: English or French / Mona Barbagli: image

I left for Dakar with a suitcase containing a collection of small clay objects made solely from memories, images, fantasies, and clichés. These forms accompanied me throughout the journey and were left behind on the last day in places I consider key. This performative action can be interpreted as liberating.