Edmond Musasa Leu N’seya (1950, DRC) Lives and works in Lubumbashi, DRC

Musasa (based in Lubumbashi, DRC):  Musasa is an artist and teacher at the Academie of Fine Arts in Lubumbashi. He is specialised in figurative painting, focussing on habits, rules and systems that are part of life in rural environments and ancient societies. He developed most of the visual language used in the National Museum of Lubumbashi explaining the origin and use of a variety of natural and industrial materials and processes. Musasa and Maarten Vanden Eynde have been collaborating several times since 2015. Their collaborative works have been presented at: An unfinished symphony. Polyphony in the collection, Mu.Zee, Ostend, BE (2020), Tallinn Photomonth - Contemporary Art Biennial (curated by Heidi Ballet) EE (2019); Future Genealogies, 6th Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi, DRC (2019); Contour Biennial #9: Coltan as Cotton, Mechelen, BE (2019); Le Contrepartie, Jean-Cocteau Cultural Centre, Paris, FR (2020); Half Earth, Gallery Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE (2019); Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE (2019); The Weight of Wonders, Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, NL (2019); Green Gold, Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, FR (2019); Africa Museum at Egmont Palace, Brussels, BE (2018); Enough Room for Space, Brussels BE (2018); Belgian Art Prize, BOZAR, Brussels, BE (2017); 4th Lubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi, DRC (2015)

Their collective works Copper Connection and Wheel of Fortune are acquired by Mu.Zee, Oostende, BE

Musasa’s work has been exhibited over the last 40 years in DR Congo in local exhibition in Lubumbashi, Likasi, Kolwezi and Kolwezi.

Material Matters (Li3, Fe26, Co27, Cu29, Zn30, Ag47, Sn50, Au79, Pb82, U92, ..)
Ongoing series of wall chart paintings, 

Maarten Vanden Eynde & Musasa, 2018-2020

Material Matters consists of a series of paintings that introduce a selection of chemical elements that occur naturally on Earth like gold, uranium, lithium and copper. For each element, various drawings, pictographs and symbols form a visual rebus, or a summary of the origin, transformation and influence, making use of a visual language that is inspired by old school charts. Most represented elements have a relation with DR Congo, either by origin, scarcity and/or highest grade.