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“My work is a delicate yet powerful protest—a quest to illuminate memory, transform pain into resilience, and build a more conscious future.”
Owanto is a multi-cultural Gabonese artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, painting, video, sound, installation, and performance. Rooted in a forty-year career, her work explores memory—personal and collective—and questions identity, transformation, and resilience. In 2009, she became the first Central African artist to present a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Through poetic gestures and activist intent, Owanto creates spaces for healing, dialogue, and reimagined futures.