In 2025, Galerie Caroline O'Breen is at INVESTEC Cape Town Art Fair curated section Tomorrows / Today with a solo presentation of Anthony Ngoya.
Tomorrows / Today is a curated section of INVESTEC Cape Town Art Fair that aims to highlight artists who will be tomorrow’s leading names. A panel of art professionals awards a cash prize to the artist with the most exciting presentation.
Anthony Ngoya (1995, FR) is a French artist of Congolese origin who lives and works between Belgium and the Netherlands.Nagoya’s practice engages with collective memory, emotional archive, and diasporic longing residues. The artist draws from personal and collective sources such as family albums, press archives, construction debris, and urban scraps. Through various processes of layering and diffusing images, objects, and materials, Ngoya investigates the construction of memory and identity.
Anthony Ngoya's past presentations include exhibitions in the UK, Belgium, France, Greece, and the Netherlands. The work of Anthony Ngoya is part of the collections at MACAAL – Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden in Morocco.
WITHIN THEM
This evocative series navigates the fluid intersections of memory, displacement, and resilience, weaving together intergenerational narratives through a collection of family photographs, digital remnants, and archival materials. Anthony’s first family visit to Congo as a child is at the heart of this project. Drawing from personal and collective histories, the work explores how memory is constructed, layered, and ultimately subject to erosion.
Ngoya’s approach blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the universal, the conscious and the unconscious. His photo transfers evoke the fragility of souvenirs,familial bonds, and the weight of histories passed through generations. Tracing the migration of the artist’s parents from Congo-Brazzaville to Limoges, France, the series extends beyond a singular narrative to address broader themes of uprooting and resilience. By bridging micro-intimate family moments with the macro-shared experiences of migration, the work moves beyond autobiography, offering a universal meditation on how the past is carried, reshaped, and reimagined across generations.