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ARTISTIC PROCESS

   

Why did my parents separate at 5? Why did my father forbid me to live with my mother? Why have I been sick months in hospitals? Why did I experience Rwanda's genocide at 10? Why my parents are dead? Why did I still have problems? How to solve them? At barely 16 years old, existential questions were invading me. The lack of response created a blockage in me. So I immersed myself in literature, the history of my family, my culture, my country, in science as well as in my passion for drawing. In "To my mother," Camara Lay spoke of the "woman of resignation." It did not encourage me and made me resign myself. But the discovery of phrases like Frantz Fanon's "self-help effort" in Socrates' "Black Skin, White Masks" and "Know Yourself" awakened in me the desire to speak with the greatest potential who was in me, drawing. Thus, I had the strength to find solutions to my questions as a "woman of determination". The drawing, the installation, the video, the photography and the performance, are choices of artistic language in which I find a great freedom of expression which pushes me to answer the questions on being in the face of his inner self, face to his identity, his culture, his memory. And on personal awareness in the responsibility of writing the history of my country in my own way.

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