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Laura Nsengiyumva
Laura Nsengiyumva is a Brussels-based artist and architect.
Distinctions
She won the first prize at the Kunstsalon Gent in 2011, and the second prize at the Dakar Biennale in 2012.
Work
Through her interdisciplinary practice, Nsengiyumva explores themes such as diasporic experience, multiple identity, North-South relations and empathy. She speaks about these topics through images and interventions on colonized spaces. Her transcultural view of history is based on human stories that invite us to find what brings us together.
Projects
Her artivists actions like PeoPL (the melting of a statue of Leopold 2) and Queen Nikkolah, are part of her research project "Shaping the presence of the African diaspora in Belgium".