Presentation

Gosette Lubondo was born in 1993 in Kinshasa, where she lives and works. Graduating from the Académie des Beaux-arts in 2014, Gosette participates in several artists' workshops and collectives, then in an international photography masterclass. She produced her first striking series in 2016. Disturbed by abandoned places where the mark of time is physically imprinted, she takes over a disused train in Kinshasa station, in which she stages imaginary travelers, whose expression and dress evoke the atmosphere that once animated this place. The series, called Imaginary Trip, was a great success and launched her career. Two years later, Gosette extended this “imaginary journey” to a former school, created in 1936 by a Christian congregation and now virtually abandoned. This would be Imaginary Trip II, a series produced as part of the photographic residencies at the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris), acquired by the museum and exhibited in 2020 in the group show “To you belongs the gaze and (...) the infinite connection between things”. In 2020, she was awarded the Cap Prize for her Tala Ngai series, which bears witness to contemporary Kinshasa. In it, she photographs some twenty young Kinshasa women at home, in their domestic clothes, then as they present themselves in public. In 2021, Gosette Lubondo was awarded the Prix Maison Ruinart, which each year honors an emerging artist exhibited at Paris Photo.