Michèle Magema

Michèle Magema is a Congolese-French video, performance, and photography artist. She was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1977 She emigrated to Paris, France, in 1984, where she currently resides. In 2002, she received her MA in fine arts from l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy In addition to being a resident artist at Cité Internationale des Arts, she has participated in the Africa Remix Exhibition. Her work has been exhibited in the Global Feminisms Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshoron Museum, and Sculpture Garden One of her most well-known works is Oyé Oyé, (2004) a two‐channel video installation, in which a woman (Magema) is shown marching in place on the left, while on the right historic footage of Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko overseeing parades of Congolese cultural pride.

References

http://signsjournal.org/michele-magema-goodbye-rosa-2005-2005

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521560

http://www.doualart.org/spip.php?article301