Born in Lubumbashi in 1995, Joseph K. Kasau Wa Mambwe is a visual artist, filmmaker and author based in Lubumbashi. He has a degree in Information and Communication Sciences from the University of Lubumbashi, with a specialization in Performing Arts.
His passion for images began very early in Lubumbashi's makeshift cinemas, and was nourished by multiple visual influences that would later be formalized in his artistic practice. From theater to cinema, through photography and writing, Joseph Kasau's career has been built around the desire to tell stories, whether his own or those of the communities in which he grew up and still lives. His artistic practice lies at the intersection of film, video art, photography, and creative writing and addresses in his work the complexity of memory and identity in a post-colonial urban context. Her productions are very attentive to social interactions, highlighting power relations and proposing alternatives for change and gathering.
His Ku-Tambuka project was born out of a reflection on the parliaments-debouts, systematically organized groups that meet on street corners to talk politics, sports and music. This will to gather is due to an excessive need for speech, for opinion in a tense socio-economic context where the media does not necessarily tell the truth. Ku-Tambuka is an aesthetic research that questions the elsewhere and the place of fiction in the public word as well as the way this word draws its own cartography through the city.