Lucie Kamuswekera. (NL - FR - EN)

Lucie Kamuswekera. Embroidered past, imagined future in Congo

Lucie Kamuswekera (born 1944) is a Congolese artist who uses embroidery to depict Congo's collective memory. She learned to embroider during the colonial period and uses this technique to document both the colonial past and the recent history of the Congo Wars, events that have deeply influenced her personal life. In 2021, she declared: "The moment I saw people die is the moment I started embroidering the history of Congo."

This trilingual brochure (NL, FR, EN) is the catalog for the exhibition that ran from November 18, 2022, to March 31, 2023, at Amsab-ISG and was created in collaboration with researchers from Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University and Ohio State University. The exhibition will rerun from July 19 to August 29, 2025, at St. Nicholas' Church in Ghent, in collaboration with Amnesty International Flanders and Conflict Research Group (Ghent University).

Maarten Hendriks, Sam KNiknie, Gillian Mathys, Sarah Van Beurden. Lucie Kamuswekera. Embroidered Past, Imagined Future in Congo.
Ghent: Amsab-ISG, 2022, 52 pp., ill., ISBN 9789464330236.
Price: €5