Profile
Shoty Ndjoli is a musician, singer, and visual artist working and living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shoty works in a multifaceted research around masks, sound, heritage and identity. Inspired by the practice of his ancestors of the Mongo tribe of Congo, he extends and modernizes traditional masks and instruments with aspects of contemporaneity, futurism and pop culture. He is interested in discovering how his work, inspired by the tradition and know-how of his ancestors, can be transformed through contemporary art and thus become a tool for a cultural-political dialogue.
Shoty is a member of the underground movement of the artistic community of Kinshasa, who re-uses waste and found objects to create instruments, masks, costumes and diverse audiovisual art. He sees this process not only as a way of creative manufacturing, but also as an activist work and a collective response to the ongoing ecological crisis.
