© Villa Medicis Georges Senga
Georges Senga (1983, Lubumbashi, DRC) is a photographer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He develops his photographic work around history and the narratives revealed by ‘memory, identity and heritage’, illuminating our actions and the present. His projects explore memory, looking for the resonances that people, their facts and their objects leave behind, and the resilience of memory in his country, DR Congo.
His publication How A Little Pagan Hunter Becomes A Catholic Priest published by Kunstverein Publishing Milano, investigates the figure of Bonaventure Salumu, so-called ‘pagan hunter’, who between the 1940s and 60s received a Christian education from missionaries in Congo, following which he was ordained to priesthood as a Jesuit, moved to Europe, eventually returning to his native village where he became a husband and father.
Georges Senga is part of the artistic dynamic of the city of Lubumbashi at Atelier Picha in DR Congo, the artists collective On Trade Off and at the Photo Market and Phototools workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has been exhibited internationally in institutions; in 2021 he developed a project at the Villa Medici. In 2023 his work has been presented at Framer Framed, Amsterdam as part of the exhibition Charging Myth by the artist collective On Trade Off.
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Shapeshifters
A group exhibition examining how colonialism has shaped museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge
Exhibition: Charging Myths
An exhibition by transnational collective On-Trade-Off exploring how technological innovation is dependent on natural resources.
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