Langu Anastasie

Born in 1992, in Kinshasa. After studying law, in 2016, she begins her photographic practice. Self-taught, she follows several trainings (SHAW Academy, Online University), and develops installations and video work. In her work, she questions history and collective memory. She considers photography as a restorative practice and an alternative therapy to the traumas linked to colonialism and to the current forms of slavery, the migratory crisis and armed conflicts. The place and role of women in society, as well as the search for spiritual identity, are at the center of her concerns.

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions: “Voices of Kinshasa” at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany, in 2018, “Woman Power” at Bandjoun Station, and at the Center for Contemporary Art, Doual’art, Cameroon, in 2019, African women exhibition in Marrakech at the Palmeraie Museum, in 2020, “Look at me” at the Brulhart Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland in 2023. She was the winner of the Artembo competition in 2018, she participated in the photographic exhibition Dak’art off then in 2022 with the SAHM workshops. She moved to Paris in 2022 and joined the workshop of artists in exile in 2023.