Joana Choumali is a multimedia research artist from Ivory Coast that has experimented with a variety of different artistic modes mediums throughout her career. Choumali’s work acts as a type of archive for the specific
cultural or geographical moments that she has bore witness to - series such as Traduction, Adorn and Ça va Aller demonstrate this. With her camera in hand, she seeks out her subjects and aims building a story from the image she sees.
In 2016, Choumali introduced textile and embroidery into her work, combined with photography she transforms each scene she captures into a dream-like fantasy.