BIOGRAPHY


Born in DRC (ex Zaire) in 1964, Xavier studied cinematography editing in Belgium and attended art classes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Brussels as a summer student.

In 1992, he joined the international medical organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF),
as a volunteer and worked in Burundi, Azerbadjian, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Laos, Palestine and Kenya until 2003.

Many of his works are entrenched in his experience of war zones or with groups in the margin of the Kenyan society. He has created a broad range of work responding to the events, emotions, and relationships that have filled his life. These are works that mediate on universal themes of mortality, fragility, and the natural world.

Since 2003, he is based in Nairobi where he works as an artist and art curator

He is as well the co-founder of Art2Be (www.art2bebodymaps.com), a group of Kenyan and International visual artists and therapists who work creatively with marginalised groups in Kenya (People Living with HIV, Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgenders, Commercial Sex Workers A O) to foster positive living and social change and aiming at fighting stigma and discrimination.