Born in Kinshasa in 1992, Géraldine studied at the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa, and works in the city she still calls home. As a visual artist, she expresses her hopes and dreams for the people of DR Congo in her original artworks. Instead of using paintbrushes and colours, she has made black smoke the heart of her creative output. At one point in her artistic path, she felt that paintings hindered her expression. In burning them, it was as though she recovered their soul. And by using collage, she reassembles fragments of history, such as masks, to give them a life outside of the museum’s collections.