Chéri Samba

Chéri Samba, a Congolese painter, fuses acrylics and textual commentary from her dual-based life in Kinshasa and Paris. Her vibrant canvases cleverly blend graphic illustration and African iconography, encoding criticism and self-portraiture with a comic strip flair. Her art pulsates with vivid storytelling, capturing the viewer in a dialogue on African life and global interconnectedness.