Po B. K. Lomami (Pauline Batamu Kasiwa Lomami) is a self-taught indisciplinary artist, art administrator, and artistic and public programmer. They are a Congodescendant (DRC) from Belgium currently based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal.
Lomami’s practice initially emerged from urgency, strategy, and reclamation of space-time. It was part of their activist and community work with LGBTQI youth and Afrofeminism in Europe. As a disabled black queer person, a Congolese Belgian for whom the intersection of systemic discriminations and related institutional violence were experienced personally, it was a form of action in public space. Their art is a continuation that cultivates intrusion, interference, and introspection. They are continually questioning individuals, institutions, and themselves through affection, force, the absurd, and the quotidian.
Lomami holds a Bachelor’s degree (2011) and a Master’s degree (2014) in Business Engineering from the University of Namur, and a Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies from Concordia University (2022).