During her residency, Aminata Soumaré will explore how ritual, rooted in oral traditions, can function as a living sound archive. The project emerges from a personal reflection on what it means to inherit a culture that is passed down through voice and gesture, rather than written records. Faced with the fear of losing her connection to her Soninke heritage, she began questioning how memory is preserved within minority diasporic communities in Belgium, where histories are often fragmented or overlooked by institutional archives.

Living and working in Brussels, Aminata approaches the city as both a site of encounter and a place of transmission. Through conversations, field recordings and performative experiments, she will research how sound and ritual can serve as methods for preserving and transforming collective knowledge. The residency becomes a space to listen to what remains unarchived and to explore how stories can endure and circulate through rhythm, repetition and embodied memory.

Aminata Soumaré is a Malian-Belgian multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. Her work moves between sound, performance and dance, with a focus on sound collage and the reactivation of archival materials. She treats sound as a space of memory, assembling voices, field recordings and media archive into new narrative forms. Rooted in hip-hop Aminata explores how archives can become living compositions. Through her practice, she seeks to connect the personal and the collective, using sound as a medium of remembrance and transformation.