BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1984 in Kalemie in R.D.Congo, Asia Nyembo Mireille grew up in a family of 13 children. After high school in biology and chemistry, she enrolled at the School of Arts in Kinshasa, the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009, she followed the video workshop in partnership with the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and realized her video performance, which will be exhibited at the (out) Video Art Biennial in Wrocklav, Poland. In 2010, she was shooting in Strasbourg with a memory-based installation linked to the ancestral works of the National Museum of Congo in Kinshasa. In 2011, she graduated from the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts for 3 years in interior design. She met with Canadian Artistic Director Emmanuelle Fréchette, who began her career as a graphic designer and set-top propsetor for the Canadian film "Rebelle", in which she was entrusted with responsibilities. It was for her an entry into the world of cinema, a perfect knowledge of space management.
From 2012 to 2014, she followed several art critic trainings led by Eddy Devolder as part of a partnership with the Summer Academy of Wallonia, as well as by Aliou Ndiaye and curator Abdelkabdel Damani at the "Ateliers". Sahm "in Brazzaville. She obtains the same year the first price of video art in this same Workshop. It was at this time that she had the opportunity to learn photography as part of two partnerships linking the Academy of Kinshasa to, on the one hand, the Academy of Fine Arts of Tournai and, on the other hand at the Summer Academy of Wallonia, as well as to attend a research workshop in contemporary creation "Master Art" organized by visual artist Vitshois Mwilambwe from Kin Art Studio during which she develops a drawing method particular from his experience. In 2015, she was selected at the African Biennial of Photography "Les rencontres de Bamako" where she exhibited a sci-fi pilot film that she directed with a group of artists in Kinshasa. She integrates all the skills acquired in the various formations mentioned above (biochemistry, interior architecture, cinema) into her artistic projects, which personalizes her creation.
In 2017, she obtained a research and experimentation fellowship at Tamat, the contemporary textile art center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. Where she develops a work on "Raphia in its transfiguration and erasure, the symbol of the revaluation of Congolese textile forgotten in favor of the wax loincloth. "
Art being for her the deep expression of the spirit, she allows herself to be led by it by integrating her personal history: a childhood in a well-off and ripped family, long years of illness, the genocide of Rwanda and the war in eastern Congo. Bride and mother of a child.
