Statement 2023
Drawing is all about the meeting of several elements. Drawing is about cross-fertilization.
Drawing is about encounters, crossovers, and hybrids. Drawing is about generating lines. Drawing is all about drawing lines.
A line connects one, two or more points. It separates or joins surfaces. It tells a story. It gives life to a story. It lives, grows, and dies. It is visible or invisible. It can be felt or not. A line carries a voice. It is also a path, a tube, a thread of ideas running from point A to point B or from point A to point B itself. A line is a space where people meet, where they cross, where they move. It is a living space.
My work focuses on these properties of the line in order to find new creative possibilities and therefore new approaches to telling the story of the Congo. This approach allows me to broaden the concept of drawing, of which the line is the basic element. This is a process of liberation, of decolonization of the concept of drawing, which emerges from the meeting and cross-fertilization of the properties of line and different artistic disciplines.
Statement 2020
Drawing is making lines. A line connects one, two or many dots. A line can divide a space in new spaces, it also has the power of reunite again these spaces. Lines have a story we can read. They have a life and they die. Lines give life to a story. Lines can be visible or not. You can feel lines. Lines are paths, are thread to conduct an idea from a point A to a point B, or from a point A to the same point. Lines produce rhythm and sounds. Drawings are the extension of the brain. Drawings can be extended.
I started to think on all these potentialities and work on the possibilities of connecting the drawing with other disciplines such as photography, performance, music or adding some technics or materials such as cutting, de-constructing, printing, smart-phone applications or daily life movements and gestures. By mixing or putting in harmony (or not) these technics, in order to have different approaches for talking about social issues.