Alphonse Eklou Uwantege

Alphonse Eklou Uwantege is a 27-year-old queer Sagittarius, born in Minsk from a Rwandan mother and Togolese father. Alphonse is a model, performer and director based in Brussels. Their work uses the body as a tool, writing as a weapon of resurrection, and performance as a political emergency. Their method is based on a desire to thwart the norms of representation and the relationship between spectators and performers by disrupting theatrical spaces. Alphonse is currently developing their artistic research into transgenerational trauma, invisible memory and colonial transmission in a solo tribute to their uncle, Alphonse Kanimba, who died during the Tutsi genocide in April 1994.