Anthony Ngoya

Anthony Ngoya (°1995, FR) is a visual artist whose practice investigates displacement, memory, and the speculative possibilities of archives. Over the past decade, his trajectory has unfolded internationally, through studies and residencies in Belgium and the Netherlands. Originally from France with family roots in Congo-Brazzaville, Ngoya explores how personal and collective histories are constructed, fragmented, and reimagined within the legacies of colonialism and migration.

His works often draw from damaged or fading source materials such as family albums, press clippings, found textiles, and architectural fragments. These traces are layered, copied, painted, and digitally manipulated into painterly and photographic sculptures, installations, and moving-image works. In this process, Ngoya highlights the fragility and mutability of memory, allowing images to dissolve into one another and reveal how recollection is always partial, associative, and subject to reinterpretation.

A formative period at De Ateliers, Amsterdam enabled him to expand his approach, deepening his use of the moving image and developing an “archaeology of images” that embraces distortion, repetition, and overlay. Through this work, he examines how histories are archived and transmitted across generations, questioning what remains legible in photographs and documents once their contexts have been lost.

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