My work draws on ancestral Congolese traditions, contemporary urban culture and collective memory, often reflecting on migration, relocation and healing. Every thing around me including me inspires me.
 
At the heart of my practice is the concept of Nzoloko, from the Lingala word for “incision or scarification”, a technique borrow from an ancestral practice of self-inflicted incision for therapeutic, cosmetic, and spiritual transmission purposes. Thus, I see every dark surfaces as a skin, whether it's a space or a fabric, from tarpaulin to leather. I incise or hot-iron mark to creating symbolic wound, imbued with light an sound,  that speak of the pursuit, the quest for happiness, identity or home, and the trauma that often accompanies it. 
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I allow non-artists to participate in the creation of my installations, using workshops and community engagement as integral elements of my work process. 
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I create spaces and moments where ancestral memory and contemporary realities converge, each project acting as a form of diagnosis and proposed remedy for the therapy of the broken systems we inhabit.