Times Of Swaziland: ‘IMAGINARY TRIP’ ART EXHIBITION

‘IMAGINARY TRIP’ ART EXHIBITION
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Mxolisi Dlamini on 19/06/2023 14:21:00


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.