Les Phantoms du fleuve Congo

The photo and sound installation The Ghosts of the Congo River takes the spectator into Joseph Conrad's work The Heart of Darkness and brings him alongside the banks of the mythic river. Its silt is constituted of the strata of history as well as the consequences of the economic exploitation of the river. What remains today are rusty shipwrecks, abandoned in the early 20th century by the colonists. Polluting the banks and the water, they nonetheless compose the precarious habitat of hundreds of families. Based on this life that has been created there, despite everything, Nyaba Léon Ouedraogo questions the contemporary brutality of North-South relations.