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KINSHASA, CAPITAL OF THE WHOLE WORD
(Video Installation)
- Shooting in October 2023, with Congolese artist Bryan Batupe
and rapper Cromix Onana Djenda Christo - Production : Jil Winter, Dreieck GmbH
- Languages : French, Lingala, Tshiluba
In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo and home to 18 million people, certain neighbourhoods carry the world: People’s China, Tokyo, London, Brussels (Matonge) and Paris (Bandal). Two gangs clash: Arabs and Americans. As for the most feared police station, it’s nicknamed Sobibor. But there are only Congolese here.
North
2023
Experimental Short Film
A sequence shot by plane from the African coast to the shores of Europe.
When you have the privilege of holding a Western passport, it takes 9min47s.
But for the Sudanese writer in exile Youssif Halliem Kiddo, whom we listen to during this flight,
the crossing of the Mediterranean was quite different…
Exhibitions with the artist collective “school of Mutants”
Since 2021, Valérie Osouf joined the artist collective L’École des Mutants, founded in 2018 by Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottero
- CIAP Vassivière / Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam / Biennale Berlin / Biennale Kaunas
- à venir : Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery Leeds / Théâtre National de Kaunas / Biennale de Dakar
14ème biennale de Kauna
14th Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania) from 25 August to 29 October 2023.
Curated by Alicia Knock and Inga Lace
I AM my own sun
a new vision of the world
https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/reviews/26852-old_post-office_new_friendships
12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art from 11 June to 18 September 2022.
Curated by, Kader Attia
Akademie Der Künste, Pariser Platz
Stasi Museum
Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam – avril-Mai 2022
CIAP Vassivière from 19 september 2021 to 30 january 2022
Curated by Denetem Touam Bona