Born in 1967 in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Freddy Tsimba studied plastic arts, sculpture option, at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown. First handling bronze, copper and iron, the artist creates silhouettes on the move as in an endless exile. Then, amassing different materials, such as cartridges, casings and other pieces of scrap gleaned from the battlefields that pave his country, the artist welds them to give birth to monumental compositions. Erased silhouettes, dismembered and bruised bodies, busts of pregnant women, sick or dead children… his sculptures restore body and existence to the anonymous victims of wars, genocides and humanitarian disasters that tear the world apart. In solidarity with suffering humanity, Freddy Tsimba seeks to transcend the pain of crimes committed by honoring the memory of the dead and recalling the power of life. His powerfully symbolic and universal work has been exhibited on all continents.