CUIVRE ET OXYDATION URBAINE EDITION 2024: XR FUTURE VILLES
The « Copper and Urban Oxidation » project aims to establish sustainable spaces for exchange and reflection within an academic context around the relationships between the city of Lubumbashi as a space primarily dedicated to the industrial exploitation of metals such as copper, zinc, and manganese, and the ancestral metallurgical practices that existed before the city’s establishment in 1910.
Initiated in 2022 by the artist Hadassa Ngamba, the project embarked on its first phase in collaboration with the Architecture faculties of UNILU and ULB, as well as an ancestral copper beating workshop in the city of Lubumbashi. The edition was supported by WBI Lubumbashi and Brasimba (DRC).
2024 Work in progress…
Having grown up in Boma (the prototype of Congolese industrialization) and Lubumbashi (a major mining city in the Haut-Katanga region, which encompassed other kingdoms than Congo before colonization), Hadassa Ngamba began working with maps. Maps reveal signs of exploitation. The work she exhibited for this occasion was featured in an article in The New York Times.
Ngamba moved to Belgium in January 2019 to participate in the residency program at WIELS in Brussels, followed by a postgraduate course in visual arts at HISK in Ghent (2020-2021). Since 2020, Ngamba has been living in Belgium and occasionally returns to her home country. Hadassa Ngamba’s work is included in the collections of S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE), IKOB in Eupen (BE), the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels (BE), and Morgan Stanley Bank in New York (USA), as well as in an international private collection.
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“Ma résolution viscérale avec l’art est de disséquer les configurations cartographiques qui ont programmé les civilisations humanistes, scientifiques et géologiques sur lesquelles sont implantées et battues des institutions capitalistes. Dans Cerveau 3, j’essaie de saper les repères de la domination capitaliste qui ont configuré la cartographie de la République Démocratique du Congo en tant que manuel de conquête et de domination. L’œuvre offre à chacun des spectateurs de reconstituer son propre espace…”
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HADASSA NGAMBA Studio
The Hadassa Ngamba Studio is a space dedicated to encounters, exchange, and a laboratory for artistic creation and research in Brussels. It aims to forge connections between the art of Hadassa Ngamba, a Congolese artist residing in Belgium, and European institutions.