wani toaishara (b. 1990, Bukavu, D. R. Congo) is a Congolese artist whose works span various mediums including image-making, performance, installation and film. His practice explores Black life and representation, dislocation and Indigeneity as well as the effects of colonialism on Africa and its diaspora, often using personal stories to create intimate works. The use of urban spaces in his films is significant in the way he transforms banal spaces into dramatic stages for exploration and reflection.photography, african diaspora, congolese

wani toaishara (b. 1990, Bukavu, D. R. Congo) is a Congolese artist whose works span various mediums including image-making, performance, installation and film. His practice explores Black life and representation, dislocation and Indigeneity as well as the effects of colonialism on Africa and its diaspora, often using personal stories to create intimate works. The use of urban spaces in his films is significant in the way he transforms banal spaces into dramatic stages for exploration and reflection.photography, african diaspora, congolese

wāni toaishara is a Congolese artist living and working in Melbourne. His practice explores African Futurisms, Statelessness, Indigeneity, climate justice, those on the margins of those movements and dialogues, Indigenous knowledge production and the effects of dislocation in a globalised anti-Black, Afrophobic society. Final Solution enters the Darebin Art Collection as the winning work of the 2021 Darebin Art Prize. A personal and introspective moving image work, Final Solution features the artist’s family and friends as a way of interrogates some of these broader ideas, speaking to urgent issues both in this nation and on an international level. The powerful message is offset by a sense of intimacy, much needed as we move forward amid the paradigm shifts of the last two years.