Histoire na kati ya poso series
Oil and acrylic on printed canvas
130 x 90 cm
Available


“I remember my ancestors”. The treatment inflicted upon the Congolese people, who were forced labourers during King Leopold II’s reign, was captured in horrifying photographs that have survived to this day. Théo Mwamba has used these photographs to bear witness to the Congolese people’s ordeal. He explicitly refers to rubber production, the root of the brutal and repressive regime put in place by the Congo Free State, by painting their bodies with patterns that call to mind rubber.