She is most well-known for her series of paintings and drawings titled “le Code noir” which evokes the violence of the slave trade and its effected trauma on the following generations of Western African cultures.
She studied art in Liège, Belgium at l'École des beaux-arts Saint-Luc where she graduated in 1995.
A griot questions the individual experience by absorbing the words of the ancients and modeling them into art to be interpreted by their living descendents.
Her art is an anthology of the signs and traces of trauma, and is centered on archiving colonial and postcolonial African history.
With her work, she aims to unmask the process of forgetting the most violent hardships of the past.