Echoes of the Ancestors gathers five powerful artistic voices — Lawrence Yombwe, Mika Márffy, Lazarina Matuta, Mwaba Chandia, and some never before seen works by the late sculptor Flinto Chandia — in a shared space where memory, myth, and identity speak across generations.
Each artist draws from a deep well of personal, cultural, and ancestral knowledge, yet their practices are remarkably contemporary in their capacity to re-interpret heritage for our present moment. They examine what is passed down — whether through initiation rites, oral tradition, ceremony, or the intimate teachings of family — and what it means to carry that knowledge forward.
The works in this exhibition form a dialogue between tangible and intangible inheritances: the Mbusa emblems of Yombwe’s Bemba heritage; Márffy’s dream-charged portals to the Sacred Feminine; Matuta’s re-telling of origin myths and clan histories; Mwaba Chandia’s mask-inspired portraits that bridge ceremony and imagined worlds; and Flinto Chandia’s sculptural forms that marry tradition with timeless materiality.
