Michèle Magema

Michèle Magema is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1977. She emigrated to Paris, France in 1984, where she currently resides.[1]

In 2002 she received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy. In addition to being a resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the Global Feminisms exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum,[2] the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden.

One of her most well-known works is Oyé Oyé, (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Michèle Magema, Goodbye Rosa – 2005 (2005)". Signs 38 (4). Summer 2013.
  2. ↑ Muller, Dena (Winter 2008). "Reviewed Works: Global Feminisms by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin; Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin". Signs 33 (2): 471–474. doi:10.1086/521560.
  3. ↑ "Michèle Magema". doual'art. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
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