Sammy Baloji is an artist whose work studies the memory and history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Born and raised in the contested and mineral-rich Katanga province of the DRC, Sammy’s practice presents his ongoing research into the Congo’s cultural, architectural, and industrial heritage. Through photographic documentation and archival research, his work manipulates time and space, bringing into focus the continuities between the country’s Belgian colonial history and contemporary economic imperialism. Sammy has had recent solo exhibitions at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence (2022), the Beaux-Arts in Paris (2021), the Lund Konsthall in Sweden (2020), the Museum of Modern Art in Aarhus, Denmark (2020), WIELS in Brussels, and The Power Plant in Toronto, Canada (2016–2017). His work can be found in the collections of the Tate Modern in London, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris, and has been shown in numerous group exhibitions worldwide.