Empreintes

Empreintes (Imprints) is a series of photographs of found objects and urban traces in Lubumbashi. I look at objects whose functions have long been forgotten. On the edge of streets, in the middle of town, and in wastelands, I identify shapes that become disembodied testimonies through my lens.

We forget that objects thrown by uncivil citizens disfigure the harmony of the environment. I transform them into sculptures and abstractions that make us forget their primary functions. A way to introduce poetry where there was none. A way to cancel the initial gesture of those who left these objects to get rid of them, without any respect for others.

Black and white accentuates the desire to give plasticity and aesthetics to scraps.

I like to look around me in my neighborhood in the city. My look is attracted to objects whose functions have long been forgotten. On the edge of streets, in the middle of town, and in wastelands, I identify shapes that, through the lens of my camera, become disembodied testimonies. I transform them into sculptures and abstractions that make us forget their primary functions. A way to introduce poetry in which there is none did not exist. One way to cancel the initial gesture of those who, without any respect for others, left there to get rid of them. Black and white accentuate this aspect of the desire to give plasticity and aesthetics to scraps.