MASQUES GAMANKÉ

based in Brussels. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire (2019) and from ENSAV La Cambre with a degree in photography (2022). Her work explores the space that unites or separates the two sides of any migration narrative. Her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Belgium and internationally, notably at ISELP and Kanal – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), FOMU (Antwerp), Framer Framed (Amsterdam), Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) and the International Centre for the Image (Dublin).

In Masques Gamanké, however, the artist chooses never to show these objects directly. She makes negative plaster casts of the inside of the masks, then photographs these forms using the visual conventions of museum photography. It is no longer the mask that faces us, but its reverse, its hollow, the space normally occupied by a face. The object remains present without ever being fully revealed. These negative forms evoke histories and identities that have been lost, displaced or transformed through the Western gaze.

Modgi, Zambi, Gama, Solé, Sum, Moké, Moka, Falayi, Falayolo, Botcho, Solsiké & Yiri

Fine Art matt print (Epson Photo Rag 305 g), 30 cm x 45 cm, mounted on 2 mm Dibond / framed in a white wooden shadow box, 30.8 cm x 45.8 cm

Prints and framing by Milo Profi, Antwerp, 2026