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Great Lakes Region


2011

Faustine, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Acrylic on paper (detail)

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Great Lakes Region
2011

Uvira

“In 1993, the war broke out. I was standing before my front door with my child when my brother-in-law turned up to warn me that some people claimed that I was a Tutsi and wanted to kill me…” Faustine

Abstracts

"The UNHCR transit center in Kavimvira operates at full capacity in both directions. Today, Burundi families are returning to their country after sometimes more than twenty years of exile. Tomorrow, Congolese families will come back from Burundi. The tally of deaths caused by the wars in Kivu is estimated in terms of the closest million. Displaced persons and refugees are counted with the same level of accuracy.

(…) Lydia, one of Faustine’s daughters, was born in the DRC, and was on her way to her parents’ country for the first time. 

She hadn’t endured the vicissitudes that her disillusioned mother and aunts had had to bear with. She sings Cabrel and loves Christophe. She wishes to continue her computing studies, or failing the means to do so, to find a good husband: 'It’s true, it’s possible today because men and women are on an equal footing!' Lydia has faith in life and a lovely nature that Mama Faustine has managed to preserve."

Extract from Ténèbres au Paradis, 2011, Éditions Gallimard

Works

Great Lakes Region 1073
Valentine, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Acrylic on paper
42 x 66 cm

Great Lakes Region 1078
Valentine 2, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Gouache enhanced silver print
125 x 70 cm

Great Lakes Region 1071
Fatuma, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Acrylic on paper
42 x 33 cm

Great Lakes Region 1075
Fatuma 2, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Gouache enhanced silver print
125 x 70 cm

Great Lakes Region 1065
Faustine, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Acrylic on paper
60 x 70 cm

Great Lakes Region 1080
Faustine 2, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Gouache enhanced silver print
125 x 70 cm

Great Lakes Region 1069
Faustine 3, 2011

Uvira, DRC
Gouache enhanced silver print
50 x 40 cm

Great Lakes Region 1304
Camp de transit UNHCR de Uvira, 2011

RDC
C-Print
180 x 291 cm

Maps

Great Lakes Region 1061
Great Lakes Region - South Kivu

DRC, 2011
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Portrait de Fatuma, 2011

Uvira, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Préparation de la photo-tableau, 2011

Camp, Uvira, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Illustration Making Of
Décor de la photo-tableau, 2011

Camp, Uvira, DRC
© Bruno Pellarin

Books

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