Democratic Republic of Congo / 2020
Heart of Resilience
A community-engaged journey along the Congo River foregrounded locally authored narratives of resilience through 14 crisis intervention community murals.
ARTEGENESIS / PROJECT ARCHIVECongo River, Democratic Republic of Congo
The creative process
The initiative retraced the river route associated with Heart of Darkness while collaborating with communities, humanitarian workers and medical partners. Work in Kisangani included Alliance Française.
People & collaboration
Benjamin Swatez, Amanda “Azerine” DeLuca, local communities and humanitarian and medical collaborators.
A continuing conversation
This project belongs to a wider practice of community-authored expression. Its relationship to Artegenesis is explored as part of Benjamin’s developing research, without assuming identical effects across communities.
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