My passion for beads found on the markets in Abidjan when I was a child, led me into working with glass and exploring its many different techniques: hot and cold. Glass is a versatile medium that holds infinite possibilities. It offers transparence and opacity, plasticity and hardness, softness and roughness… It allows beauty and emotions to pass through it … it calls for touching and feeling …

It is that duality in glass that I like to explore as it is a reflection of my roots: both African and European, of what I show and hold inside, of my homes in Belgium and Italy …

My work is rooted in my personal history and in my African childhood. I wish to transmit and provoke emotions, whether through my sculptures, photography, a painting or a piece of jewelry.

Today I live between Overijse, close to Brussels, BE and Murano, IT, the island of Glass.

In Venice, I reconnected with the Laguna of my childhood in Africa: the circle of Life …