BIOGRAPHY

Linora Dinga is a Russian-Congolese multidisciplinary artist based in Brussels. She was born in Russia, grew up in Congo, Kazakhstan and later in Portugal. She works across performance, text, photography, video and mixed-media installation. Her solo performance Act, Interrupted and the mixed media installation behind the scenes form a body of work exploring her personal journey as an immigrant trapped in a bureaucratic loop.

Currently, Linora is developing new research around the duality of life and grief cohabiting the same body. 

She also collaborates as an actress and dancer in other artists’ projects. Recent collaborations include Studio Wachowicz/Fret, Georgios Mantzakos, and Izah Hankammer. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

I begin in the body. Before language, before form, before the work has a name there is the body. It knows before I know. It carries what cannot be said and waits until I am ready to listen.

I make art about what the body knows but language struggles to hold: the bureaucratic systems that act on the body, grief, displacement, the things that cannot survive inside silence. I translate lived experience into form because I believe that what is felt deeply by one body can resonate in another.

I work with movement, text, video, photography, and mixed media installation. The form is never decided in advance. I experiment until the work demands its shape. Some works are complete in a single gesture. Others follow a thread, one project teaching me where the next one begins.

In my installations, I create space where visitors can navigate, touch, sit, question. In my writing, body becomes the witness. In my photography, lens becomes a confession. Whatever the form, I want to open something that wasn’t open before.