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Bio

My practice explores the Black body in relation to media production and its impact on the Black experience. Through artistic research, I examine this relationship and the gazes it has historically produced, attempting to disrupt and transform them by shifting their aesthetics in my work. With this approach, I work across a wide range of media, including film, photography, video installation, audio installation, and performance. I do not see my practice as medium-specific, but rather as an ongoing process that activates different visual languages addressing the way we read and interpret the Black body in images, while attempting to lift the veil on the machine behind our naturalised interpretation of media and the conflicting biases within our gaze.

I was born in Leuven, Belgium, to a Belgian-Dutch mother and a Senegalese father. This bicultural upbringing exposed me to a wide range of customs and perspectives from an early age, prompting ongoing questions about my place within Belgian society.

In 2017, I began my studies in Photography at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, graduating with high honours in 2022 with my first film, Tukuleur. That same year, Tukuleur was awarded the VAF (Flemish Audiovisual Fund) Wildcard for Filmlab and was featured in the Currents #10 exhibition in Maastricht, supported by Marres and Z33.

In 2023, I was selected for FOMU Antwerp’s annual .Tiff program, which included coaching, a magazine feature, and an exhibition at the museum. That same year, Tukuleur was also included in Contour, the Mechelen biennial.

Between 2023 and 2024, I took part in Poc Poc, a project by The Constant Now, where I contributed to exhibitions and the development of the Poc Poc Manifesto.

At the end of 2024, I was invited by M-Leuven to join their residency program, during which I transformed a previous performance, The Choir of Dissonance, into an audio installation. The residency concluded with a four-month presentation of the work in the museum.

In 2025, I had a solo presentation of The Choir of Dissonance Installation at the M-Museum in Leuven.

Currently, I am working on a new film produced by Auguste Orts, which is expected to be completed in early 2026.