Video Portraits x Djeneba Aduayom

After a successful career as an internationally-traveling professional dancer, Djeneba Aduayom progressed into photography and brought her love of movement and emotive performance into her imagery and subsequent directing work. Drawing inspiration from her cultural mix of French, Italian, and African heritage, her concepts and artistic expression is rooted in her personal exploration of the inner worlds that reside in her imagination. In looking within and articulating her creative ideas in a visual abstraction that beckons interpretation, she hopes her works allow the outside viewer to travel to a universe of their very own making.



Ania Catherine is an artist from Los Angeles, currently based in Berlin. Stemming from a background in contemporary dance, she creates works that flow between choreography, performance, poetry, film, installation, photography, and combinations thereof. Her work has been shown at the British Film Institute, Art Basel Hong Kong, SCAD Museum of Art, Dansmuseet (Stockholm), Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro (Rome), London Fashion Week, Ars Electronica Global Gallery (Linz), Trauma Bar und Kino (Berlin), Forum des images (Paris), CICA Museum (Korea), the International Meeting on Screendance (Valencia, Spain) among others. Her practice has roots in slow cinema, surrealism, the aesthetics of boredom, and her studies (academic and physical) of the body as a tool of both learning and unlearning. She holds a master’s degree in Gender and Politics from the London School of Economics and works internationally performing, choreographing, speaking, directing, and teaching.



Creating should be expansive and limitless, versatile and endless, all at once.
— Djeneba Aduayom