Marina's Garden 2, 2022
Lanterns, 2023
Effect on the community, 2023
Zapping, 2024
plage Pointe-Noire, 2024
Tout vas bien merci, 2024

Anthony Ngoya’s (France, 1995) work addresses the importance of recollections and memory in the formation of identity. He uses media that already carry or suggest a history within them, such as old films, photographs, pieces of textiles and tiles. He paints, prints, and mixes these to create new images. In those images personal and collective memories intertwine. In Foreign Land, Ngoya displays a video installation in a living room setting. The various screens display edited material from personal and public sources: archival footage of political and social events in the Republic of Congo between 1960 and 1990, sourced from Congolese and French media; recordings of French tourists visiting Congo, home videos made by the artist’s parents and noise images created while zapping between channels. The installation refers to both the complex workings of memory and Ngoya’s family history, which has been shaped in part by Congo’s and France’s colonial past. The importance of storytelling in this process is underscored. Each time a story is told, a different part is highlighted.