‘IMAGINARY TRIP’ ART EXHIBITION

MBABANE - A young and talented Congolese woman named Gosette Lubondo exhibited her ‘Imaginary Trip’ concept pieces at the Alliance Française Mbabane last Thursday.

Lubondo is a professional photographer who was introduced to photography by her father at the age of 14. In 2014, she graduated in Visual Communication from the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts and took part in her first exhibition in an event which was organised by the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles. The ‘imaginary concept’ was developed in 2016, it is a work in progress that involves taking over abandoned spaces and leaving them to nature, to perform artistic acts through staging and mimes of the past of these places, silhouetting their souls with the aim of preserving memory in perdition. “I carried out this concept in a school used to be called Ecole Centrale, now called ITP Gombe Matadi. My work, therefore, consists of staging myself  in this space, in the guise of schoolchildren, teachers or people working there; sometimes with some of the school’s current pupils,” said Lubondo in a video which she recorded and sent to Alliance Francaise Mbabane since she was not in the country. Among those who witnessed the exhibition are the European Union Ambassador to Eswatini Dessislava Choumelova, Director of Alliance Française Mbabane Ronan Coquel and Archie Magwaza of Bahle Art Gallery.

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