Kasangati Godelive Kabena
Democratic Republic of Congo
B. 1996
Godelive Kasangati Kabena is an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She currently lives and works between Kinshasa and Kumasi, where she continues her studies at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Her work draws on speculative research and reflects on engagement of different bodies – these bodies, opening an emancipatory speculative field of post-humanist analysis while engaging in a discursive arena about reproduction and notions of axiomatic equality.
Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as 2023: Silent Invasions: The Art of Material Hacking,An exhibition presented by Ghanaian blaxTARLINES and the art communities of Uganda at Amasaka Gallery in Masaka, 2023: represented by The Efie Gallery at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London 2023, 2023: Worldmaking, Mitchell- Innes,New York curated by Gideon Appah and Ylinka Barrotto, 2022: JAOU PHOTO , Commissioner Karim Sultan, The 6th edition of Jaou Tunis, organized by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (KLF) and the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT), 2022: Kinshasa–(N)Tonga exhibition: between future and dust, the Kinshasa Academy of Fine Arts misses the start of the “Living Traces” project between Kinshasa and Brussels, 2021: Collective exhibition "Materials and Things" Curator: Exit Frame, the season " un Quartier Généreux " by public state, on the occasion of the Africa 2020 season. Roubaix, 2020: Collective exhibition with Thephotographicollective at 1-54 Contemporary Africa Art London Fair, 2019: Exhibition and participation in the 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, MALI, 2023: Mbwa, Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology, curated by Abbey IT-A ,2021: “Foreign and Family Journal” French Institute of Kinshasa.