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Great Lakes Region


2011

Khadija, Doudou et Awa, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper (detail)

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Great Lakes Region
2011

Upper Wele

“They thought I was dead. I thought I was dead too. I saw the village in smoke, everything on fire, everyone…” Charlotte

Abstracts

"Since December, terror has seized hold of the beautiful land of the Uele, until that point spared by Congo’s warfare. The FARDC (Congolese army) and the UPDF (from the Ugandan army) are often more feared than the LRA rebels from the bush. A different type of fear, a daily one, which cannot be eliminated by fleeing elsewhere to another town, because this type of elsewhere doesn’t exist. During my stay in Niagara, the population set fire to the base of the soldiers meant to secure access to the town, fed up with yet another particularly violent racket perpetrated by the soldiers at the bridge’s entrance.

The LRA’s new display of exactions in the Eastern Province has prompted mass exoduses of the population. Niagara’s 30,000 inhabitants have seen 17,000 displaced people come rushing in. 

These have been dispersed into more or less long-term self-run camps, like the one in Gada, or else host families.

(…) Marie and Sindra have had no news from their families ever since they escaped from the LRA. They help their host families to weed plots near the town. The fertile countryside has been deserted, and even when there are no signs of rebel movement in the surroundings, the women fear rape and looting by the soldiers as much as ever."

Extract from Ténèbres au Paradis, 2011, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Great Lakes Region 1031
Khadija, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

Great Lakes Region 1035
Awa, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

Great Lakes Region 1033
Khadija, Doudou et Awa, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

Great Lakes Region 1039
Khadija, Doudou et Awa 2, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
C-Print
53 x 37 cm

Great Lakes Region 1041
Cécile, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

Great Lakes Region 1049
Cécile 2, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

Great Lakes Region 1043
Rive, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

Great Lakes Region 1047
Marie, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic on paper
66 x 42 cm

Great Lakes Region 1306
Petite Marie au centre de l'Afrique, 2011

Upper Wele
C-Print
130 x 208 cm

Great Lakes Region 1854
Claudine de Nambia, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic and pencil on paper
42 x 33 cm

Great Lakes Region 1059
Clémentine, 2011

Upper Uele, DRC
Acrylic and pencil on paper
42 x 33 cm

Maps

Great Lakes Region 1024
Great Lakes Region - Eastern Province, 2011

Gouache on paper, 57 x 48 cm

Great Lakes Region 1025
Même Père, Même Mère, 2011

Gouache on paper, 60 x 42 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Khadija, 2011

Niangara, Upper Uele, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Peules Bororo at the MSF hospital, 2011

Niangara, Upper Uele, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Portrait of Cécile under Petite Marie's look, 2011

Niangara, Upper Uele, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Books

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