ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning): Picha


Tuesday, July 13, 2021

ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) welcomes Georges Senga and Rosa Spaliviero for a conversation on Picha and curatorial and artistic practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Picha is an initiative developed by artists and art practitioners working in Lubumbashi. It promotes artistic creation in DRC and provides a space of visibility for contemporary art in Lubumbashi by offering a place for exhibitions, meetings, artist residencies, and workshops. Picha takes the urban space as a stage by cultivating an artistic reflection on the city of Lubumbashi, its history, its environments. 

Georges Senga is a photographer born in Lubumbashi and a member of Picha. He develops his photographic work around the history and stories revealed in memory, identity, and heritage. Senga’s projects explore memory and its resilience in his home country, the DRC. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including several editions of the Lubumbashi Biennale; the 2013 Asbl Dialogues; the Bamako Biennale in 2011, 2015 and 2017; Addis Fotofest in 2014 and 2018; the 2014 Kampala Biennale; and Cape Town Art Fair. Senga’s work has also been presented at Sesc_Videobrazil, the Contour Biennale, Kigali PhotoFest, Fondation A, Wiels Art Centre, Galerie Imane Farès, Cargo in Context.

Born in Dakar, Rosa Spaliviero lives between Brussels and Lubumbashi and works as a film producer and curator. A founding member of Picha, she has been involved in the Biennale de Lubumbashi since 2008 as a production manager and film curator. Spaliviero worked in film production as assistant art director for Tim Pannen for the feature film by Flora Gomes, A Republica Dos Meninos (2010) and as a producer for Atelier Graphoui (2011-2018), an experimental audiovisual production workspace in Brussels supporting first-time filmmakers. Today, she works as an independent film producer with Twenty Nine Studio & Production, focusing on creative documentaries and artists’ films. Spaliviero’s recent filmography includes Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020) by David N. Bernatchez and Sammy Baloji, Up At Night (2019) by Nelson Makengo (Best Short Documentary at IDFA 2019, Sundance 2021), and Machini (2019) by Tétshim and Frank Mukunday, an animated documentary that has won more than 10 awards around the world.

 

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  • @ biennale_de_lubumbashi
  • @ atelier.picha
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