About
My practice moves between memory, territory, identity, and processes of dehumanisation. I come from a place that I carry with me — a place that exists not only geographically, but also through memory, affect, and the traces it leaves behind.My work begins where histories meet: personal and collective, African and European, lived, inherited, imagined, and remembered. I am interested in what happens in the encounter between histories — what remains, what is altered, what disappears, and what persists as a trace. The seam, the rupture, the fragment, and the residue become points of departure for thinking about how histories are carried and transformed.I work across painting, textiles, sculpture, installation, video, and found objects. Materials are central to this process. I approach them not simply as means of representation, but as carriers of memory and experience. Fabric holds traces of touch, labour, and use. Objects carry the presence of lives that preceded them. Paint can obscure as much as it reveals. Through their physical qualities and histories, materials participate in the making and unmaking of memory.My process is one of cutting, layering, covering, exposing, shifting, and reassembling. I take things apart and bring them together again, allowing fragments to acquire new relationships and meanings. A fragment becomes a surface; a surface becomes an image; an object becomes something else. These transformations create spaces in which what is incomplete, displaced, or unresolved can remain visible.I am drawn to what exists between things: between visibility and concealment, presence and absence, remembering and forgetting. These in-between spaces are important to my practice because they resist closure. They allow multiple histories to coexist without requiring them to become a single, coherent narrative.Africa and the wider world form interconnected fields of memory, experience, and belonging within my practice. I reflect on what we inherit, what we carry, and what changes as it moves through generations, places, and bodies. Belonging, for me, is not necessarily anchored in one place. It can be understood as something material and transient — something carried, altered, exchanged, and ultimately left behind as a trace.I am particularly interested in how identities are shaped through movement, displacement, encounter, and systems of classification and exclusion. Processes of dehumanisation are part of this inquiry: the ways in which people are named, categorised, displaced, reduced, or rendered invisible. Rather than proposing fixed identities or definitive histories, I create spaces where identities and narratives can remain fragmented, relational, and in transformation.
2026 Malta Biennale , Holy Rollers - Time Landscape2025-2026 DVONS commission tapestry, Textile Museum (NL)2025 Bridging Minds, Vzn Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (NL), group2025 Rene! I'm still standing, Groete Kerk, Breda (NL) group2025 How Rocks melt and flow exhibition, Delfina Foundation, London (UK) group2025 Sometimes It’s the shadows that reveal the stories,Textile Museum, Tilburg,NL),solo2024 Bebele Zamba, EENWERK Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), solo2023 Stoel neemt Stelling, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL), group2023 Refresh #2 War & Conflict, Amsterdam Museum (NL), group2023 Te land, ter zee en in de lucht, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, (NL), group2022-2023 The Collection is..., Kazerne, Eindhoven (NL), group2022 Ĩ Ndaffa # / Forger / Out of the Fire, Dak’Art, La Biennale de, Dakar (SN), solo2022 Oscam Air #3, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (NL),group2020-2022 1525, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), solo2016 Anatomy of Identity, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL), solo2016 Art and Technology, Museon Museum, The Hague (NL), group2016 Secundum, Den Bosch City Hall (NL), solo2014-2016 Anthropocene, Deutches Museum, Munich (DE), group2013 Paradise Reset, Church of Stones, Eindhoven (NL), group/curator2012-2013 Anonymously chosen, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL), group2011 University of Applied Science, The Hague (NL), solo2011 Self-sufficiency, Savant Care, Helmond (NL), solo2011 Room 7, Scheppings Church, Eindhoven (NL), solo
BEFORE 2015
Guernica, Future Nostalgia. Willkommen in Anthropozän, 2014Ipsum, Designboom, 2014Smaakmakers, Volkskrant Magazine, 2014Future Nostalgia, New York Magazine, 2013Future Nostalgia, Designboom, 2012Rising, (several works), Eindhoven Contemporary Art, 2012Miracle, Catalogus ‘Green Today’, Rai Elicium, Amsterdam,Care Justitia, Mantelzorg, wikken en wegen. Op weg naar een Care Justitia, Delft, Eburon, 2011Attribute of Tomorrow, Catalogue ‘Anonymously Chosen’ , Municipal Museum, The Hague, 20115 works from the series: Care and Being. Kamer 7, Delft: Eburon, 20116 works from the series ‘Dislocation’.Ik zie ikzie wat jij niet ziet. Delft: Eburon, 2010 12 works of art: Art4Care. Art4Care, Provincial House Den Ben Bosch, 2009TheArenaof Care:Familycareandcarerespoonsiblity:Theartofmeeringeachother.Delft:Eburon, 2007The Art of meeting eachother: research, education, practice in family care, Delft, Eburon, 2007Care and relationships: Metaforum, wetenschappelijk tijdschrift van de GGzMB & GGze. Themanummer Kunst & Psychiatrie, 6, 77-90, 2006Reflection. Lustrumboek. Filmsalon De Ontmoeting. Peace of Art Foundation, Tilburg, 2006 curriculum vitae
