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

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

Feitiço is a fiction that retraces the history of a collection of 102 miniature masks from the Congo, belonging to a private collector in Louvain-la-Neuve. Like an archaeologist, the imprint of these objects allows me to trace their stories while raising questions related to the theft of objects, the fetishization of masks, and the sacralizing museum displays attributed to them.

Brussels, in progress, 2025

– Interactive virtual tour with keyboard and mouse or PS controller, approximately 15’ / ov: Dgéba / sub: English
– 12 digital photographs

Orson Rouffignac: 3D design
June Ha: music & sound design
Christie Dinganga: voice-over
Support: Roger de Conynck Fund

The Gamanké Museum proposes a collection of gamanké masks from the Kanéma country that falls within the realm of fiction by using codes close to a museum reality. This project questions the place of the mask in our European societies and in our institutions. The Gamanké Museum is only accessible through a virtual visit. 

Brussels, 2020

– 8 prints on vellum paper with framing, 30 x 40 cm
– Herbarium of the Congolese Department of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, Anna Safiatou Touré, NON-COUCHÉ Collection No. 3, CFC Editions x Iselp

TheHerbarium... 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

– vidéo 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.