Gamanké Museum, interactive virtual visit
(Brussels - 2022 - in progress)

In collaboration with Orson Rouffignac for the 3D design and Édouard Conte for the design of the model.

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. 

Nénima, video 11'00 (Brussels - 2021)

Dgéba, edition 28 pages, 13,5×20 cm (Brussels - 2021 - in progress)

Mama Gnosové, edition 52 pages, 13,5×20 cm, texts by Véronique Donnat (Brussels - Paris - 2021)

« Nénima is a sensory ballad between my mother's stories about the Mali of my birth and the fantasy world I have built for myself over time. The spoken language is dgéba; a mixture of words and sounds from elsewhere. It is an invitation to travel in an ambiguous space, at the border of reality, perhaps the space of the child in the womb, full of sounds, atmospheres, diffuse images lived from the inside."

Herbarium of the Congolese department of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken, 8 framed prints, 30×40 cm (Brussels - 2019/2020)

Theherbarium is a fictitious reconstruction of a herbarium that could be that of the Congolese greenhouses of Laeken (Belgium). It is a direct reaction to the inaccessibility of the Laeken greenhouses year-round, the confinement, the non-registration of the plants, the colonial history of the building and Anna Safiatou's interest in the plant as a political and living element conveying stories. 

Caldarium, video 10'00 (Brussels - 2019/2020)

In collaboration with Orson Rouffignac for the 3D modeling rendering and Joo-Hoon Ha for the sound ambiance.

Caldarium is a proposal for immersion in the heart of the Laeken greenhouse. This flagship building of Belgian heritage, created in 1873 by Alphonse Ballat for King Leopold II, has one of the largest collections of exotic plants in the world. The aim is not to highlight the beauty of this exceptional building, but to question its political status throughout history, and that which it still holds today. 

Fantasy Objects, video 11'06, images by Mona Barbagli (Dakar/Pikine/Nantes - 2019)

Fantasy objects, photograph on velvet paper, 30×40 cm, unique print (Nantes - 2019)

"I left for Dakar with a suitcase containing a set of small clay objects made only from memories, images, fantasies, clichés. These forms followed me through this journey and were dropped on the last day of my trip in places that I consider key. This performative action is to be interpreted as liberating." 

Atoms, corpus of about twenty photographed sculptures, 4 prints on vellum paper, about 1,60 m high (Nantes - 2017/2018)

Atoms results from a reflection around the interstitial space, the in-between two materials, the in-between two bodies. The series presents modelings of these "empty", anecdotal spaces which conceptualize the absence by giving it body, to rewrite stories thanks to these new bodies.