Kilamba

Kilamba “Discovering the existence of the city of Kilamba in Angola, was an electroshock for me” I wanted to work in this place, both anchored in a geopolitical history at the heart of current issues and very singular in its construction and relationship with color. Located south of Luanda and built with Chinese funding, it creates an almost fictional area in the middle of the Angolan landscape: architecture and floating atmosphere are almost unreal... The need to explore these grounds, to understand the social and structural complexities was essential to me. The question was then to try and bring out a kind of spontaneous archeology of the territory, while carrying out a work of portrait, revealing the relations between Men and this environment. Through colors and shapes, I wanted to explore and reinvent this topic between Africa and China. Laura Bonnefous