Odette MESSAGER (Kinshasa, 1967. Lives and works in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium) Portrait de famille. Transfer onto aluminium plate, scraping, acrylic paint and oil. 80 x 120 cm. Signed lower right and dated 2024. Odette Watshini Messager was born in 1967 in Kinshasa. Raised in a world of Congolese influences and impregnated with European culture, she expresses her multiple origins, revealing a feminine and intimate inner space. It is the African woman who brings her inspiration to life. The artist uses art to bear witness to the positive aspects of her Africanness. Afterward, she creates from her commitments, feelings, travels, and the knowledge she wants to transmit of her body and encounters..