Léonard Pongo [EN]

In this episode, I sit down with Léonard Pongo, the Belgian-Congolese visual artist whose work dissolves the boundaries between photography, video, performance and installation.
Born in Liège and trained in political science, Pongo has developed a visual language deeply rooted in Congolese realities, yet always infused with myth, ritual and memory.
We talk about his celebrated projects, from The Uncanny to Primordial Earth,  and the ways they reframe the Congo through dense, dreamlike images that hover between the spiritual and the visceral.
Our conversation explores how he uses photography as a space of transmission, how he approaches the sacred in his work, and what it means to portray a country through its inner landscapes rather than its surface narratives.
A rich, introspective dialogue with an artist who is redefining documentary practice, turning it into a poetic form that opens new ways of seeing.

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