Gaël Maski

14 October 2021

Maski was born in 1990 in Kalemie (DR Congo) and lives in Kinshasa. He focuses on marginalised and voiceless people. He interviews and photographs them, then prints out the photos on plain paper and cuts them up. Then comes the “recreation” phase: he uses fragments of real life to create new scenes, which he enhances with allegories and symbols, in a sense using the magic of the imagination to try to transcend the social reality of Kinshasa.

In 2021-2022, Gaël’s work was shown at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, as part of the Self-Addressed group exhibition curated by Kehinde Wiley.